Lindsay & Grant

No-one's immune from the Hollywood "biopic", whether you're an assassinated American President or a beautiful young British Royal who died tragically in a car crash.

Even better if you can - if you will pardon the expression - kill two birds with stone.

So now, barely 18 months after the death of Elizabeth Taylor aged 79,  we have Liz and Dick, tracing the turbulent relationship of the Oscar-winning actress and the Welsh boyo actor Richard Burton (who died in 1984 aged 58) after they first met on the set of Cleopatra.

They would marry twice, make a number of films together - one great (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), the rest ordinary to stinkers (Boom, Hammersmith is Out) - and generate probably more headlines than any other showbiz couple in history.

But who to portray this tempestuous tandem (pictured above)? As Liz, enter Lindsay Lohan, a car crash celebrity in her own right, who compounded the image by making this biopic during probation for theft. As for the pock-marked Dick, or "Rich" as he was generally known, step up Kiwi hunk Grant Bowler, best known for teleseries like True Blood and Blue Heelers.

What next? Subo - The Movie? Heaven help us, that is apparently in the pipeline.