It’s been a long fall from grace for Limp Bizkit lead singer Fred Durst. For a two year period around 2000, the front man was on top of the world. “Nookie” was everywhere, and misguided suburbanites began wearing backwards red Yankees hats in ill-advised attempts at fitting in. Then overnight everything changed. Durst was suddenly treated like the Antichrist. Djs refused to play his records, and his entire band was famously booed off stage and nearly attacked by thousands of angry Metallica fans in Chicago. In response to this overwhelming hatred from the musical community, the crooner has recently turned to directing, and it now appears that he may be teaming with Ice Cube on a new project.
According to Variety, the Limp Bizkit mastermind is in talks to helm Comeback, a good hearted story about an eleven year old female pop warner quarterback who became the first chick to play in the tournament’s history. Ice Cube has already signed on to play the girl’s aging uncle who helps his niece along the way. Does that premise just warm your heart and give you fuzzies all over?
Durst made his directorial debut with the highly anticipated Education Of Charlie Banks. I have not seen the film, but I heard some positive rumblings about the work that the singer did behind the camera. Filming is set to begin on November 26th; so, look for this to be out sometime late next year or early 2009. There’s no word on how this will affect Limp Bizkit’s rumored new album The Unquestionable Truth (Part 2), but I can’t imagine that it will speed up the process.
