Rihanna Doesn't Want Whitney Houston Remake Role

By AOL Music Editors Posted Mar 9th 2011 01:31PM

Without exactly being asked, Rihanna has clarified that she isn't interested in filling Whitney Houston's shoes in an upcoming remake of the 'The Bodyguard.'

Rihanna tells OK! magazine she won't take on the role of singer Rachel Marron, played by Houston in the 1992 hit film, because it wouldn't be challenging enough for her. Rihanna says that she would like to escape into a role rather than play a singer.

"Absolutely not," Rihanna says. "I want to separate the two. I hate it when singers do singing movies all the time, because you can never look at them as anybody else."

Rihanna will have a chance to escape in her upcoming role -- also her big screen debut -- in the upcoming 'Battleship' movie, based on the classic Hasbro board game of the same name. The film, out May 2012, also stars 'True Blood' actor Alexander Skarsgard and Taylor Kitsch and follows a naval fleet that must protect earth against an alien attack. It's not clear who Rihanna will play in the film, but she was photographed wearing a Navy uniform on location in Hawaii last year.

"I want to play a character," said Rihanna. "My whole life is playing Rihanna, [so] being a singer [in a film] won't be a stretch for me. I like challenges, and being an actor is playing a role, being able to step into somebody else's shoes, that's the excitement."

Other divas who have been rumored for the famous Houston role are Beyonce and Jennifer Hudson. Writers Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer have already signed on to pen the remake, but there's still no word on a director or who will fill the role of the actual bodyguard, Frank Farmer, made famous by Kevin Costner in the original film.

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Wednesday 09 March

By tony

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the first one sucked,why do another?

By stu

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the soundtrack was a hit. but the movie flopped.

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Lady Ga Ga should play the lead!

Thursday 10 March

By Jara

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You have got to be kidding me. Rihanna couldn't even sh&t on the same toilet as Whitney Houston. I can't believe that she would be considered. That lil foreigner doesn't have a clue as to who Whitney is. Be gone cow

By Soldier4God

Brother Charlie! You Have Consumed A Form Of The Forbidden Fruit ASIN DEMON FOOD In The Way Of COCAINE!

By Shane

Learn how to spell and structure a sentence. Maybe you should put down your book of fables (the bible), and get hooked on phonics. Imbred redneck moron.

By Mike

Seriously? Are there no more original ideas in Hollywood?! Another thing, Rihanna would rather make a movie based off a board game than "play a singer?" Idiot.

By Good One

YEA! Mike!

By Amanda

I'm confused. Just because the role calls for singing does it not make it a "role" nevertheless? The movie isn't about her. It's about a fictional character. Is she above those singers such as Streisand and Garland who played the role of singers and did it exceedingly well? I think she's a bit full of herself.

YEA! Amanda!

By Ang

you are so right!! She needs to go away quickly. She has no vocal skills!

By MacD

Yes Whitney made some big mistakes in her career however Rihanna needs to get things moving in here own and be honored that she would even be considered to stand near Whitney let alone play her. There is no singer better and more talented than Whitney

By cc

What makes this girl think she can act. I loved the movie with Whitney and Kevin Costner. I really hope Jennifer Hudson gets the role because this woman is really a TRIPLE THREAT. Jennifer Hudson did not win her awards for nothing.

By mem

Why are no white women being considered for Whitney's part and black men for Kevin's? That would really change up the story.

By joe

Rihanna would be perfect as Whitney Houston and Chris Brown could play Bobby Brown. Or maybe Lady GaGa could play the part,she has some pretty good disguises. She could wear the meat dress. Maybe it's a little rotten now. I don't know.

By mouthpiece

I would not go see a movie with that black skank starring in it ....can't stand her...I would rather see Peewee Herman playing the part than this smug ,black ####.

By Marisol

Hmmmmmmmmmm, I'm smelling some racism here, MOUTHPIECE.

Saturday 26 March

By Lisa

What the F*k, Rihanna should be happy they ask her to play that, role, Plz Rihanna, could never in her "life time" sing like whitney Houston..

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