Estevez at work

By Joshua Tyler Oct 5, 2005, 23:59 GMT

Man at Work

Emilio's Estevez career has been basically non-existent in the millennium, in fact he hasn't done a lot of note since his brief popup in the original 'Mission Impossible' way back in 1996 and his role in the third installment of the 'Mighty Ducks' movie franchise that same year. But it looks Charlie Sheen's big bro is ready to come out of sem-retirement and make a comeback.

Estevez is currently developing a project called 'Bobby', a film about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. To do it, he's racking up a huge cast of who's-who celebrities. He's already got Anthony Hopkins, Elijah Wood, and Demi Moore on board, but The Hollywood Reporter says that now Sharon Stone, Nick Cannon, and Freddy Rodriguez have been added to 'Bobby's' bill.

Estevez's dream project will mix fiction with the facts of the Kennedy tragedy to tell the story of an ensemble cast of characters. All of them are connected by the assassination, present at the Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel in the hours leading up to Kennedy's assassination.

Though the cast is already huge, reportedly Emilio still has another ten roles to fill on a meager total budget of only $10 million. Normally, $10 mil is the asking price of almost any one of the stars already on the pic. Clearly, his passion for the project he's been working on for nearly 5 years is infectious, but with only a couple of weeks till the beginning of principle photography he'll have to move fast to fill out his cast.

Estevez wrote 'Bobby's' script, he'll be directing, and with a desperate need for great actors who work cheap, he'll also play an as of yet unspecified role in it. Stone character however will be the wife of the hotel manager and an employee of the hotel beauty salon. Former Frodo Elijah plays a man marrying a girl on his way to being drafted. Nick Cannon is a Kennedy volunteer, Rodriguez a hotel busboy.

The last feature film written and directed by Estevez was 1990's 'Men at Work', which he co-starred in with his brother Charlie Sheen. In 1996 he directed 'The War at Home'.