A Backstreet Movie?

The Backstreet Boys prepare for the Hollywood spotlight

If the Spice Girls can do it, so can the Backstreet Boys. That's what studio execs in Hollywood are saying, though plans for a BSB movie are still only in the early talking stage.

The big questions being asked by the high-powered suits are: What kind of story should they tell in a Backstreet Boys movie? And how many copies of the soundtrack album should be printed with the first run?

Film Fantasies

The Boys, for their part, are ready to go. "We've all talked about it a few times, and four of us in the group have had [action] experience," says Nick. "So why not do something?"

Acting experience they've had, mostly before theBackstreet Boys formed. Howie, then 14, had a walk-on role in the 1989 movie Parenthood, and he also appeared in the film Cop and a Half. "Acting and singing are like one for me," Howie says. Another screen veteran is AJ, who was a regular on the Nickelodeon Hi Honey, I'm Home. He played skunk, for which he dyed his hair yellow and shaved it into a Mohawk! Nick, meanwhile, concentrated on stage work, appearing in Peter and the Wolf at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, as well as starring in The Clubhouse Kids, an award-winning local Florida cable-TV show.

Still, none of them have been stars of a major feature film. But while this worries the power brokers in La-La Land, the boys shrug off the concern.

Performing on stage is "just like acting" in a movie, says AJ. "You're acting to make girls swoon."

And that, after all, is exactly what Hollywood wants – millions of girls swooning in movie theaters across the world.

Of course, that might just mean AJ won't get to live his dream on the big screen, which is to play a villain.

"The good guys win, but the villains are the ones that everyone likes," says AJ, who loves the idea of being delightfully nasty like Jim Carrey was in the mega-hit Batman Forever.

But while the villains may be the most popular characters in the Dark Knight movies, that's not likely to be the case in a Backstreet Boys flick. If the much-anticipated movie happens, the boys would undoubtedly play themselves – good guys one and all!