I'll Wait to Rent It

Elijah Wood has signed on to star as Iggy Pop in "The Passenger," a film biopic covering the early years of Pop's life with his band The Stooges in the last 60's and early 70's.

Shooting will begin in the next six months and the movie is slated for release sometime in 2008.

While Pop,60, is cool with the project, he doesn't have any plans to star in the film.

"The script ain't chopped liver. It was a work of art. But subjectively, I don't want to be involved in any way. A producer and the writer sent me a very decent letter, and asked me to write back if I didn't want them to do it. I don't feel negative about it at all."

I would be surprised if he didn't make a cameo or a "guy in the crowd" type of appearance.

A Case of the Madonna

Everyone always rags on Madonna when a slight British accent or British "speak" creeps into her speech. Looks like Elijah Wood is the latest to let the British in.

Gatecrasher asked Wood why he suddenly sounds British:

"Do I? I was just in London for 2 ½ months working on a film called 'The Oxford Murders,'" he told us. So was your character British? "No, American! But I was there, and I guess my accent is sort of a sponge for whatever I'm around."

I'm totally one of those people who absorbs my surroundings to the extent that my speech slightly changes. I lived in Toronto for 4-5 months and it took me years to stop saying "eh" and stop ending my sentences on an up note!