February 28, 1976 - Melody Maker

DAVID BOWIE cover and 2 page feature, whose first starring movie, The Man Who Fell To Earth, opens at London's Leicester Square theatre on Thursday, March 18, has been offered another major film role in the forthcoming blockbuster production of The Eagle Has Landed.

Jack Wiener, who is co-producing the film with David Niven Jr, confirmed that Bowie had been approached to play the part of a young German officer involved in a plot to kidnap Winston Churchill during World War Two. His co-stars would be Michael Caine and Donald Sutherland.

He read the script," said Wiener, and loved it. His agent told me that he'd do anything to play the part."

Bowie has not yet accepted the offer, how-ever - though it remains open because shooting is due to begin at the end of April and will coincide with his first trip to Europe for almost three years. He proposes to do a full-scale tour of the Continent be-fore playing at LONDON'S Wembley Empire Pool for five days from May 3 to 8.

Another, though long-term, project of Bowie's is a movie of Ziggy Stardust, according to Robert Hilburn, who interviewed him in Los Angeles. And Bowie would like to be involved in politics. "The one thing I want to do when I get back to England is see what is happening there politically," says Bowie. “I want to be Prime Minister of England one day."

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Picture: Terry O'Neill