Late last year Lindsay Lohan did her best Elizabeth Taylor for Liz & Dick on Lifetime though by all accounts her best wasn't very good. Now BBC is getting in on the action with the far more respectable Helena Bonham Carter as the movie star of movie stars. This will be Helena's most challenging role in a good long while, don't you think? [More after the jump...]
Helena as Liz & Liz as Liz; she did love her caftans!
The BBC biopic with the slightly classier but no less imaginative title of "Burton & Taylor" takes place in 1983 when the famous tumultous lovers were doing "Private Lives" on stage to much press fascination.
I kind of wish they'd stolen New York magazine's 1983 headline (pictured left) and called it "The Liz and Dick Show" but maybe people would think it a remake of Lindsay's telefilm?
This is the third Liz biopic but curiously all of them have been television films or miniseries instead of features. Liz first received the TV treatment in 1995 while she was still very much alive starring Sherilyn Fenn (who looked the part better than anyone else has) in her short-lived post Twin Peaks fame and Angus MacFadyen as Burton.
You can see the trailer for the new bio below which co-stars Dominic West as Richard Burton. It doesn't give you much sense as to how this will play as a telefilm but at the very least we get Helena doing a pretty good Liz bray with that "god no" when she's asked if she's read the play she's agreed to perform.
Do you think you'll ever watch it?