According to The AP, Sharon Stone has officially joined the cast of Matthew Wilder‘s porn star biopic Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story. Stone will be playing the mother of iconic porn star Linda Lovelace, played here by Couples Retreat star Malin Akerman.
The project has been in development for some time; we reported a year and a half ago that Lindsay Lohan had signed on to play Lovelace, but that didn’t stick. It took her a whole six months to get fired from the project, and Akerman was soon brought in as a replacement.
Inferno will explore the life of Lovelace, who was ultimately forced to star in various porn films, including Deep Throat, by her deranged husband and manager Chuck Traynor, played by Matt Dillon. It’s based on her autobiography, the appropriately-titled Ordeal: An Autobiography, thus not to be confused with a similar project, Lovelace, which will star Amanda Seyfried and Peter Sarsgaard as the actress and Traynor, respectively.
I can’t help but feel some serious déjà vu going on within Hollywood these past few years, what with the upcoming Spider-Man revamp, the two live action Snow White films coming out next year, and now two nearly identical biopics of Linda Lovelace. It’s still too early to decide which of these projects will outshine the other, but the addition of Stone could definitely help Inferno in the future. The film is currently slated for a 2012 release.
What do you think of Stone’s addition to Inferno? Is it a good fit?