Hugh Jackman will portray big top great P.T. Barnum for Twentieth Century Fox. Variety reports THE GREATEST SHOWMAN ON EARTH will be a modern musical with SEX AND THE CITY writer Jenny Bicks onboard. British songstress Mika is in early talks to pen the lyrics and score. Barnum’s real-life love, the Swedish Nightingale, will play a major role in the final script.
