LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Disgraced pop duo Milli Vanilli will soon get a movie made about their less-than-spectacular career, following in the cinematic steps of such icons as Ray Charles and Johnny Cash.

Hollywood trade paper Daily Variety reported in its Thursday issue that Universal Pictures is developing a film about the lip-synching combo, who lost their coveted Grammy for best new artist in 1990 when it emerged that they had never sung on their records.

The project will be written and directed for the General Electric Co.-controlled studio by Jeff Nathanson, who previously wrote the Leonardo DiCaprio crime caper "Catch Me If You Can." He has secured the cooperation of Milli Vanilli alumnus Fabrice Morvan, who has been pursuing a comeback for years, as well as the estate of his colleague, Rob Pilatus, who died of a drug overdose in 1998.

"I've always been fascinated by the notion of fakes and frauds, and in this case, you had guys who pulled off the ultimate con, selling 30 million singles and 11 million albums and then becoming the biggest laughing-stocks of pop entertainment," the paper quoted Nathanson as saying.

I saw that earlier and had the same thought. Who the hell wants to see this. There's very little story to tell and we all know it. I could maybe see this as a cable movie on USA but this sounds like a theatrical release.

Girl you know it's, Girl you know it's, Girl you know it's, Girl you know it's, Girl you know it's, Girl you know it's...........

i actually think this is a great story for a film. crazy amount of subplots, too.

i'm gon let it be known to yall that don't really know about the subject.. milli vanilli got played... what happened was is that the people actually doing the singing didn't have that sex appeal so they needed some "good looking guys"... they got rob and fab to do the do and everything was working out fine... what happened was that rob and fab actually wanted to do singing on the next lp... they threatened to tell on frank first and the bomb was dropped on them and they became the villains.... shit just wasn't fair.. and i still got my "blame it on the rain" 12"... remember when they made a guest appearance on the show SISTER KATE performing that song?

I'M THERE!

You think the studios aren't all scrambling to be the first to slap together an Anna Nicole movie?