Whew. It’s not Davis Guggenheim, after all.
After bizarre reports that the “Inconvenient Truth” director was going to take on a 3D Justin Bieber biopic -- and then reports that he had decided not to – a more fitting director has stepped up to the plate.
"Step Up" and “Step Up 3D’s” Jon Chu teased in a long series of tweets that he's taking on the Bieb -- and he and the teen idol confirm it together on YouTube.
It started Wednesday night with this: "Wow my secret mission project is gonnnnnaa be crrrraaazzyy... Have gone non stop and my life turned upside down in the last 3 days. Wow my secret mission project is gonnnnnaa be crrrraaazzyy... Have gone non stop and my life turned upside down in the last 3 days."
Then on Thursday night: "Yo @justinbieber I want to learn how to Hair Flip. You think we should give them the big news?"
And then: "I'll be posting random updates and behind the scenes footage along the way. It's Official... I HAVE BIEBER FEVER --- http://bit.ly/b26I6b"
That last link goes to a video on YouTube in which The Bieb introduces Chu as “the director of the movie … his name’s Jon.”
Bieber, who also is writing his own illustrated "memoirs," will play himself in the film, which is scheduled for release Feb. 11, 2011-- just in time for Valentine's Day.
Bieber's manager Scooter Braun will produce with Island Def Jam chairman L.A. Reid.
As for Guggenheim, his next film -- "Waiting for Superman," a documentary about America's failing education system -- comes out later this year.
In 2D.
