Music star biopics - who's next?

Cafe Society
#1

In the last couple of years we’ve seen “Ray” and "Walk the Line,” so who is the next big music star to get a biopic?

My guess:

Jimi Hendrix - His life story. Focus on his guitar playing and his drug taking. Throw in some weird mystical, hoo-doo voodo, hippie-dippie stuff (kind of like in "The Doors).
Title: “Kiss the Sky”

John Lennon - Starts with the famous sleep in (1968?) and goes through the last 12 years of his life. Focus on his relationship with Yoko, drugs (of course), his non-relationship with Julian, and the FBI investigation and his almost deportation. Title: “John” or “John and Yoko”

Marvin Gaye - His life story. Focus on his relationship with his father, women and, once again, drugs.
Title: “What’s Going On.”

#2

They keep talking about doing one on Janis Joplin, but they can’t seem to find the right star.

#3

I think the time is ripe for William H. Macy to star in Rhinestone Cowboy: the Glen Campbell Story.

http://www.glencampbellshow.com/gc_bio.html

From the site:

Sounds perfect to me. :smiley:

#4

**Quentin Tarantino ** was recently rumored to be attached to the Jimi Hendrix biopic, but he denies any involvement.Cite

There is a Gaye biopic moving ahead w/ **Jesse L Martin ** (Law & Order, Rent) as Marvin Gaye. The working title is “Sexual Healing”. Cite

I’ve heard that **Don Cheadle ** is possibly going to play Miles Davis in an untitles biopic of the jazz legend. Cite

#5

Andre “Andre 3000” Benjamin, the multitalented rapper/producer/actor from Outkast, has been attached to star in a Jimi Hendrix biopic for several years now. Apparently the Hendrix estate refuses to allow any of his songs to be used in such a movie, which rather defeats the purpose of making a Jimi Hendrix biopic, so things have stalled.

#6

Rock Hudson.

Fatty Arbuckle. Back when Philip Seymor Hoffman was fat he’d have been perfect.

#7

Rumor has it that an Iggy Pop biopic is in the works with Elijiah Wood as the lead.

I really hope this does not happen. But a film about Iggy or Joe Strummer would be nice.

#8

I had no idea that either Rock or Fatty were music stars.

#9

The AOL news seemed to have an item earlier today that said Jamie Foxx was going to play Bob Marley in a biopic. I didn’t read the piece, and I can’t find any other info on it right now. Not sure how I feel about it. :stuck_out_tongue:

#10

If we’re modeling this speculation on Ray and Walk the Line (and studio heads would be modeling this speculation on Ray and Walk the Line) we need to show our hero hitting a low but then triumphing over his/her demons so we can have a Happy Ending.

Jimmy and Janis ain’t gonna fit in this model. (Stone’s Doors was a different kind of bio pic, and way before this current trend)

Using Ray and Walk the Line as a model, I’m gonna throw in Ozzy Osbourne as a possibility. The reality T.V. show already serves as sucessful test-marketing. People believe and like the Ozzy / Sharon love story- and we’d get to see her “save” him from his self-destructive ways. Throw in some cancer survival and we got a winner.

There’s a new documentary about Leonard Cohen that I’m looking forward to seeing.

#11

They better change that title for the final product. It’s disastrous.