E! Online is reporting that the other version from Howl directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, might have secured Cowboys & Aliens co-star Olivia Wilde as Linda Lovelace. “”It would be a tremendous honor,” Wilde said. “It’s such a cool role. She was a fascinating woman — with where she came from to Deep Throat to then working with Gloria Steinem and Nora Ephron. It’s really fascinating.”

Wilde is way too pretty for Lovelace in my opinion, as Linda had this worn-out, hard-working look to her. Thoughts?

Franco would play Chuck Traynor, the man who found her, later married Linda, and allegedly forced her into porn/prostitution, that lead into international fame with Deep Throat. Deadline is reporting that the directors of Howl want Kate Hudson for the role of Linda. Franco did amazing work in Howl, but are you ready to see him get super creepy for this role?

FYI, this isn’t the Deep Throat project Lindsay Lohan was once involved with. That film is still trying to find funding.

Source: /Film

Her replacement? Watchmen‘s Malin Akerman.

The plot of the film goes like this: ” Good Girl. Obedient Wife. Porn Slave. Deep Throat Was Only The Beginning…

Linda Boreman was just twenty-one when she met Chuck Traynor, the man who would change her life. Less than two years later, the girl who wouldn’t let her high school dates get past first base was catapulted to fame she could never have imagined in her wildest dreams—or worst nightmares. Linda Boreman of Yonkers, New York, had become Linda Lovelace, international adult film superstar. The unprecedented success of Deep Throat made porn popular with the mainstream and made Lovelace a household name. But nobody, from the A-list celebrities who touted the movie to the audiences that lined up to see it, knew the truth about what went on behind the scenes.

Enslaved by the man who would eventually force her into marriage so that he could control her completely, Linda was beaten savagely with regularity, hypnotized, and raped. She was threatened with disfigurement and death. She was terrorized into prostitution at gun and knifepoint. She was forced to perform unspeakable perversions on film. She made Deep Throat under unimaginable duress.

Years later, Linda would come out of hiding to relate her side of the story—a modern horror tale of humiliation, betrayal, and violence that would rock the porn industry and put its teller in fear for her life…”

Jesse Jane thinks Lohan is perfectly cast as the troubled Lovelace. “The thing is, no one big in Hollywood would play [Lovelace] because it has to do with porn. That’s a taboo thing for actresses,” Jane said. “Lindsay, I think, will really be able to tap into Linda Lovelace because they might have a lot of things in common.”

“If she is able to play Linda well,” says Chanel Preston, “then I think people will really respect that she possibly used her own troubles to accurately portray an American icon.”

Deep Throat was one of porn biggest films (think their Avatar) and remains a much-talked about film.

Source: MTV

It is Life of Brian which was voted the most controversial film of all time besting films like A Clockwork Orange and The Last House on The Left with the polls spokesmen stating:  “The success of films like Life Of Brian proves that scandal sells.”

-The Mirror

1. The Life of Brian

2. A Clockwork Orange

3. The Last House on the Left

4. The War Game

5. Pink Flamingos

Now of course this is not the first, nor will it be the last time a most controversial film of all time list is done, so the fact that films like Caligula, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her lover,Salo,The Last Temptation of Christ,Crash,Kids,The Birth of  a Nation, The Passion of the Christ,Lolita,Deep Throat or Bad Lieutenant were forgotten to be mentioned is heresy.  It does though make you wonder who, in fact, classifies a film to be controversial or inappropriate.  Is it mere coincidence that 2 of the films mentioned are comedies while the other a pseudo documentary and not a full length  narrative film, or does it say more about ourselves that films of that nature or ‘quality’ do not get made today?  It is more often than not religion and sex, more so than violence that seems to anger certain viewers such as is the case with every film mentioned previously.  With the sole exception of The War Game which was deemed too frightening and graphic so much so that the film was made for television viewing back in August of 1966 and the same year won an Oscar for best documentary but was banned by the BBC for viewing until 1985 a full 11 years later due to ”the effect of the film has been judged by the BBC to be too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting”.

Or maybe its the filmmakers themselves that are too afraid to make controversial films like in the case of Theo Van Gough who directed the 10 minute film Submission about muslim women which got him stabbed to death (as seen below)

There is even to this day rampant discussion as to whether Pier Paolo Pasolini had been murdered out of sheer vengeance from his captor or if it in fact had been done due to his final film Salo: The 120 days of Sodom.  Either way it is up for debate that if films that can cause such outright hate and debate are more controversial than a biblical comedy by the famed British troupe.