Walt Disney Pictures has a musical vehicle for Hugh Jackman. The company has acquired rights to the Cecelia Ahern novel If You Could See Me Now. The movie will be produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, together with Jackman and John Palermo, according to Variety.
The 23-year-old daughter of Ireland's prime minister Bertie Ahern, Cecelia, who was presented with the 2005 Irish Post Award for Literature, in London this September, will release her third novel, "If You Could See Me Now", in November 2005 in Ireland, in December 2005 in the UK and in January 2006 in the US.
Hugh Jackman is set to play the imaginary friend of a lonely 6-year-old who has been left behind by his mother and is being raised by his aunt. The woman can suddenly see the imaginary friend, and a romance blossoms between them.
The 37-year-old actor was born in Sydney, Australia, of English parentage. He was the youngest of five children. Jackman went to the University of Technology, intending to work in a journalism field.
"During my third year of a university journalism course in I990, I suddenly learned that I had to do two more units in order to graduate. I was in the canteen with a friend, looking through the course list, and he said drama was an easy subject. So I said, "Perfect! I'm in."'
After obtaining his Bachelor of Arts (Communications), Jackman went on in 1991 to complete the one-year course "The Journey" at the Actors' Center in Sydney. He graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) in 1994.
Jackman was offered a starring role in the ABC TV prison drama Corelli opposite his future wife Deborra-Lee Furness.
In May 1996, Jackman completed twelve months playing the lead role of Gaston in the Australian Premiere Production of Walt Disney's Beauty and the Beast. For this role, he was nominated for a Mo award for Best Actor in a Musical. He appeared as Joe Gillis in the Australian production of Sunset Boulevard.
Jackman has made three feature films, the second of which, Erskineville Kings, garnered him an Australian Film Institute nomination for Best Actor in 1999.
In 1998, he starred in the Aussie film Paperback Hero, a romantic comedy.
In 2000, Jackman landed his first big budgeted film, the sci-fi summer sizzler, X-Men, in which he plays the comic's most popular character, Wolverine/Logan, a short, quick healing Canuck with a set of strong metal claws who will take on anyone who ticks him off.
Jackman is currently filming X-Men 3.
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