Is Brad Pitt a Frontrunner?

Following on the financial and critical success of Brokeback Mountain, the film version of Patricia Nell Warren's seminal 1970's gay novel The Front Runner has begun to be talked about in Hollywood more seriously. Last week, the rumor that Brad Pitt (People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive TWICE) is interested in playing a gay role and a part in The Front Runner specifically made the rounds of the gossip blogs and rags. Brad Pitt is now 42, but the part of the coach in the script is for a still-handsome, fit, middle-aged ex-Marine who falls in love with a naturally talented long-distance runner on his team. Presumably, Brad is not interested in the 22-year old Billy Sive character, but rather the old-enough-to-be-his-father Harlan Brown character.

Thoughts on the casting of the Billy Sive character? How about Mehcad Brooks? After all, an interracial same-sex love story set in the world of sports would really kick things up a notch wouldn't it? Too bad it's already been done: Peter Lefcourt's The Dreyfuss Affair. (And it's a comedy!)