Poll: Robert Pattinson's Still in the Jeff Buckley Running...So Who Should Get the Part?
Dennis Van Tine/LFI/ZUMApress.com; George Pimentel/Getty Images; Michael Buckner/WireImage.com; Theo Wargo/wireImage.com It was only last Thursday that we thought Lonely Boy Penn Badgley was a shoo-in for the role of Jeff Buckley in the new biopic. Robert Pattinson was "devastated" by the rejection, and Penn was set to escape the going, going, gone Gossip Girl . Well, as we now know, the intrepid L.A. Times busted that one right up, thank heavens. Looks like poor Penn is still cooped up in the Upper East Side. And Pattz? Can he snag the role he so desperately wanted? RELATED: Oh No! Gossip Guy Robs Rob Pattinson of Dream Role Doubt it. Producers say they're looking for an unknown—like, the total opposite of Robert Pattinson—so his own celebrity won't get in the way of portraying Buckley. Too bad, ‘cause Buckley was a hugely talented, brooding, hard-living beauty who drowned in Tennessee's Wolf River Harbor in 1997. Think Rob would know pretty well how to tie...