{"id":32998,"date":"2014-03-22T08:01:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T12:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=32998"},"modified":"2014-03-22T08:01:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T12:01:32","slug":"ellen-page-to-play-john-belushis-wife-in-upcoming-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/22\/ellen-page-to-play-john-belushis-wife-in-upcoming-biopic\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Page To Play John Belushi&#8217;s Wife In Upcoming Biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EllenPage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33001\" alt=\"EllenPage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EllenPage.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ellen Page has been cast as Judy Belushi-Pisano, wife of John Belushi in director Steve Conrad&#8217;s upcoming biopic of the <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> star. Page will be starring opposite Emile Hirsch, who was cast <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/28\/emile-hirsch-john-belushi-biopic\/\" target=\"_blank\">last October<\/a> in the lead role of the iconic comic actor.<\/p>\n<p>John and Judy were high school sweethearts who later married when they were in their mid-20s and their marriage lasted until Belushi&#8217;s death at the age of 33 in March 1982. I am not sure that Page looks too much like Belushi-Pisano, but I am still unsure of the casting of Emile Hirsch in the lead role of Belushi.<\/p>\n<p>Conrad&#8217;s screenplay for the book is based off of Belushi-Pisano&#8217;s memoir of living with her husband and as a producer she is very much involved in the project. So I would imagine that Page will have plenty of time to discuss the role with her.<\/p>\n<p>The still untitled film will cover the years of Belushi&#8217;s meteoric rise to fame on the iconic <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> and with the films <strong>Animal House<\/strong> and <strong>The Blues Brothers<\/strong> before his death by drug overdose at age 33.<\/p>\n<p>Shooting is expected to start shooting in New York later this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Belushi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33000\" alt=\"Belushi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Belushi.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"851\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The actress will play the wife of the iconic funnyman. <\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/22\/ellen-page-to-play-john-belushis-wife-in-upcoming-biopic\/\" title=\"Ellen Page To Play John Belushi&#8217;s Wife In Upcoming Biopic\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[2074],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-ellen-page"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32998"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=32998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}