Which musician/band/artist deserves a movie next?

Sorry, it's just......I can't get past those bagged out, bugged out, hyperthyroid eyes in OP's gif. Wtf were they thinking when they cast him?

Fleetwood Mac. Their story (aka everyone fucking one another) has everything

Prince. Bruno Mars can play him. Same stature, good singer and dancer. I wonder if he can manage wearing heels though.

Morrissey and The Smiths need a good movie. Bowie would be fun but I don't think there's anyone out there that actually could pull it off.

[quote] Prince.

Prince already made his own semi-autobiographical movie, with "Purple Rain."

There is a Bowie movie in the works and I believe his son has a say over the script. There is also a John and Yoko movie due out either this year or next

I can't believe that Fleetwood Mac has never had a movie made about them. Or the Beatles, either.

The Janis Joplin movie has never gotten off the ground and I believe Amy Adams has been attached to it for a few years

Talk of a Kurt Cobain movie as well but need approval from surviving members of Nirvana to use the music

A George Harrison film with his son who looks just like him

Gordon Lightfoot.

Great music and the film would have the added dramatic story of "Sundown", Cathy Smith and John Belushi.

Back Beat was a film of the origins of the Beatles focusing on John Lennon’s art friend who died tragically of a brain aneurysm

Stacey Q.

Can't wait to see the scenes where they show her acting on Facts of Life.

The Stones have led a wild life, but is that really enough? They managed to survive, mostly. Needs more tragedy.

Bette Midler

Michael Jackson?

I saw a film on Brian Jones who founded the Stones a few years ago

Is it too soon for Amy Winehouse

Amy Grant

Patti Boyd wrote a book last year about her life with Harrison and Eric Clapton. Taylor Swift interviewed her for Vogue and wanted to play her. You can see young Patti in A Hard Days Night

I honestly don't think that Amy Winehouse is interesting enough.

Freddie Mercury was a fascinating guy, with a lot of depth.

There aren't too many musicians or bands with that kind of story to tell.

Quite frankly, Elton John isn't all that interesting. I have no idea what Rocketman could be about, except that it's just a way to shill his music.

I know r21, it's like if they want to use his music, use it, but in a totally different story about somebody completely different. Like Mamma Mia, or Priscilla, build a story around the music, not the musician.

Nobody. But perhaps in 2060 or something, Bjork.

Barbra Streisand's life would make a compelling movie. I would have it take place from childhood thru TWWW or ASIB.

I would cast Ariana Grande as Streisand.

Absolutely Fleetwood Mac.

also, Heart

George Michael.

Yes! George Michael is another good one.

I honestly couldn't tell you a thing about GM's life, which is why we need a movie about it.

One thing is for sure, though. He had a lot of talent along with a lot of "demons."

Jimmy Savile, Gary Glitter, Ian Watkin and Pete Townshend.

I would call the Fleetwood Mac movie, "As Long As You Follow."

And use that as the theme of the movie.

Can you imagine casting a Fleetwood Mac movie?

That would be the best part of it.

There have been a number of Beatles related movies. Someone above mentioned Backbeat, but there’s also The Hours and Times, Nowhere Boy, Two of Us, and Birth of the Beatles. Also I Want To Hold Your Hand and Yesterday (which is coming out this summer) though those aren’t a biopics. And there have been TV movies made about both John and Yoko and Paul and Linda’s relationships.

The John and Yoko one that’s upcoming will presumably be shite.

Everly Brothers.

Joy Division film “Control” was a very good film

Grateful Dead. We share a hometown and they are distinctive and colorful

I would like to see Guns and Roses or an Ozzy /Black Sabbath movie.

In 20 years, a Britney Spears movie.

Nick Drake. Maybe Terence Malick could direct.

They have already made films about or partly about the interesting ones like Jerry Lee, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Chuck Berry, Brian Wilson. Think they also made one about Dusty Springfield and Nina Simone? Maybe a Jagger bio... .

R33 Very pretty, yes. But crap story.

Sam Riley was a brilliant Ian though.

You forgot me, hussies.

A Britney Spears movie would be fascinating if they were honest about what really happened to her and what's really wrong with her.

Yeah, Britney's story is still being told.

It 'aint over, 'til it's over.

Led Zeppelin. Bonzo’s death, the tragedy of Plant’s son...a lot of stories in their pasts.

Britney got a Lifetime movie, remember.

I’d be interested in a Tori Amos biopic. She’s been thru a lot and she’s crazy af.

Syd Barrett

There was a legit Blondie biopic in the planning stages, with a lot of controversy about who would play Debbie Harry. Eventually Kirsten Dunst was in the running to play her, with Harry's blessing. A screenplay was written, the title was "Heart of Glass: The Story of Blondie." It seemed seriously in the works but I can't find any news stories about it post-2007. Oh well.

I always thought The B-52's story would have made an interesting film.

Bands or musicians with a rocky road to success or hardships or public struggles are the ones that would make the most interesting biopics. Or maybe they just had weird careers. Like The Runaways film from years back (I think called 'Cherry Bomb'?) They weren't super well known but their story was so strange it made an interesting film, with Kristen Stewart as a young Joan Jett. Like... maybe a film about Throbbing Gristle would be hard to make boring, even if the general public doesn't know about them? Also maybe: The Plasmatics? There's a lot of interesting material there.

Donny Hathaway would be interesting...quite the tearjerker though. La Lupe would be fascinating if they let it be as camp as it ought to be.

Absolutely the B52's

Liza!

Roger Daltrey said he is casting Keith Moon for a biopic.

Boy George would be fun

Lynyrd Skynyrd. Even their VH1 Behind the Music episode (remember those? was like a soap opera.

the Plasmatics is brilliant r47!

How about Darby Crash and the Germs?

R55 There was a Darby Crash/Germs biopic called WHAT WE DO IS SECRET in 2007, I think it didn't play in theaters but went straight to DVD when that was still a thing. I didn't see it when it came out because I loved the band and his tragic story (and the great biography about him, 'Lexicon Angel') too much. I thought it looked like a really stupid/cheap take on the whole thing.

But years later I saw it and thought it was actually quite great!

Gigi Allin

Mama Cass.

Does Rocketman have a scene in it where Elton John performs at Rush Limbaugh's wedding?

Just wondering.

Marianne Faithfull

It has the Rolling Stones and Mick Jagger, London in the swinging '60s, heroin abuse, living on the streets, a comeback, a film career, a re-invention.

It will be called, of course, As Tears Go By.

We need a biopic that will have lots of nudity and trashy behavior. Therefore, Justin Bieber.

Dorothy Dandrige - glossy big film. Marilyn - the never was gender-bender - this should be darkly funny and nihilistic and just a slice of life, a few years max. B-52's early years ending with Ricky Wilson's AIDS death - just mostly about the Athens scene and bittersweet. John Sex - a way to tell a lot of stories.

The Ramones

I've always said that I would like a movie about David Bowie and Iggy Pop's friendship including their time in Berlin (with special guest, Lou Reed)

Joni Mitchell’s Vagina

Simon and Garfunkel

Cher

Simon and Garfunkel are the two most boring people on the planet.

Pamela Des Barres

[quote] Cher

Cher's movie would end up with her lapsing into dementia, and becoming a right-wing anti-immigrant freak.

I used to like Cher, but now that she supports Donald DUMP, she's dead to me.

first of all, Cher's movie will NEVER end. Second, she's not actually a Trump supporter.

r64 isn't that basically VELVET GOLDMINE? Todd Haynes just couldn't get them to sign on to allow the real music so he fictionalized it, but barely

yes r72,, basically. i just want realism, the movie made me want more.

Sting and the police The clash Whitney Houston George Michael Annie Lennox/eurythmics

Marvin Gaye

Courtney Love

Frank Sinatra

What drama is there to Sting? Annie Lennox? Who about a slice of Sinead's bipolarity? That could be interesting. You got to have a gimmick.

It could be just about Sinead's arrival, stay, and final departure from the NJ motel.

R64 there was a script for that floating around but the Bowie estate will not give up the rights to his music for any biopic.

actually Lou Reed. Isn't he supposed to be a huge cunt? Maybe a biopic showing the cuntitude.

How about Dolores O'Riordan?

The Irish always have such interesting back stories, and I'll bet there's a good one with her and the Cranberries.

[quote]I can't believe that Fleetwood Mac has never had a movie made about them.

I read ten years ago that Stevie was casting Reese to play her in something that apparently never got off the ground.

Minutemen. Now there's a story.

R52 Dorit, is that you?

Bono

The Go-gos would be fun

David Bowie should be a tv mini-series. From the early 70s to 2000's, he went through so many personas, from his Glam-Rock days to now, it would take more than 2 hours to tell his story. Fleetwood Mac would be the same. FM's love lives were complicated, Stevie went from man-to-man.

Fleetwood Mac Rumours and Tusk era

Kristen Hersh. Seriously she's had the most fucking insane life.

Elliott smith.

It would be really fucking dark and also super controversial if it depicted his death as either murder or suicide.

Second the choices of Fleetwood Mac, George Michael and Boy George/Culture Club.

That old, bald British guy with the bad wig who was convicted of murder. He's a fucking nutjob!

Although his would be more of a story for Dateline, rather than full-length film.

R88, R89 --- who??

R14 There has already been a movie about Brian Jones, founding member of the Rolling Stones and he did come to a tragic end (possibly murder).

Nirvana.

With Joe Anderson as Cobain because they're fucking twins.

Dusty Springfield

R92 You are seriously missing out on some great music.

REM. The early days when Stipe had an eating disorder.

[quote] who??—It needs to be someone famous

Not necessarily.

Hidden Figures was a movie about three relatively unknown women who worked for NASA, and their story was so compelling and Oscar worthy.

Same for Freddie Mercury and Bohemian Rhapsody, although Freddie was much more famous.

Movies really should be all about the story and how it moves people, and NOT so much about selling something - like Elton John and Rocketman.

With Elton, there's no story. Only good music, which he is trying to introduce to younger viewers, so that he can make more money. However, his life story isn't interesting at all.

Even less interesting as he got older, since all he cares about now is making more money.

Hey bitches!

What about us?

Kristen Hersh wrote an amazing book about Vic Chesnutt. He had a really interesting life. Paralyzed in a car crash.learned to ay guitar as an incomplete quadriplegic. Had a slew of mental disorders and drug problems. Always a hillarious fucker though.

Dusty Springfield

Bob Dylan

Datalounge could write Act III of a Jani Lane/Warrant biopic. easy. Just hit us up for a commish, Mr. Moonves.

The Syd Barrett story would be fascinating - it has everything: genius, madness, tragedy, the psychedelic '60s, brilliant music.

Also, Keith Moon would make a compelling story. But it would take someone really special to play him. He truly was unique. A movie about him has been talked about for years but I fear as time goes on it will become irrelevant as all of us who remember him die off.

Go with the obvious classics The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Patti Smith, Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen.

R84 bleuch, no. The man's a moralising empty shell.

I rather want the story of the marriage between the houses of The Pretenders & Simple Minds and how it all shook out. I think Chrissie Hynde is fascinating and Jim Kerr is adorable, and their relationship very atypical. Both still make interesting beautiful music to this day and that ought to be lauded too.

I don’t think any movie is going to touc Bohemian Rhapsody’s success. Their catalog is bigger than The Beatles, the stones’, Elton’s and Madonnas. Especially to younger people. The musical catalog is what got people to the theater and every song is a singalong that everyone knows.

Nico

Claudine Longet

Callas

Totally, R108.

And I never actually realized that until I watched the movie. Their catalog of songs is simply amazing.

Netflix just put out an interesting documentary about Robert Johnson, a black musician who more or less invented the blues in the 1930's and died young (he became part of the 27 Club). . His music heavily influenced Muddy Waters, BB King, The Stones, Eric Clapton, etc. He was a fledgling musician who played on the streets, disappeared for a year and returned playing music that bowled people over. They said he played Devil music or sold his soul to the devil.

Johnson was ahead of his time and unfortunately lived in a time that suppressed his artistry. The story would make a great movie with a young black male lead.

Queen has a larger discography than The Beatles?

Has there ever been a movie made about Elvis?

The Hendrix film with Andre Benjamin was pretty good, Andre really had down Jimi's voice and look down, but the story was kinda crap. It could have been so much better.

Please NO, not a non-actress, Taylor Swift, portraying Pattie Boyd. I'm sure there are tons of unknowns who can play Pattie. I cannot stand stunt casting and sure cannot stand TS. Besides TS looks nothing like Pattie.

Led Zeppelin, would be great. They were a truly mysterious band. They rarely gave interviews, when they did, they mostly talked about their music, not the groupie stories etc.

Oddly enough most of the Zep biographies out there are from the perspective of road managers, roadies and others who worked for them. Jimmy Page's biography was simply a photo book of him through the years. Not many knew Jimmy dated Jackie DeShannon, they lived together in the UK for awhile. Jackie said "Jimmy was very quiet, he liked to play chess."

Ezra Miller would make an interesting Page. He looks a lot like him and has great hair. British actor Tom Wisdom also looks like Page, but he's now too old to play Page as a young man.

This

I remember a TV movie about John and Yoko.

[quote]Queen has a larger discography than The Beatles?

That doesn't sound right at all! The Beatles sure have a vast catalogue.

"Vulture.com lists a set of 213 canonical recordings, there are over 280 songs listed, with 73 of them being cover songs and the rest being original compositions. The group has also recorded several unreleased songs."

"Queen have recorded in excess of 165 plus songs featuring Freddie Mercury. "

Dave Clark

There are the hits, the screwing his band members out of royalties & ruining them financially, and the fact that he was at Freddie Mercury's deathbed when he died.

R89 Paul Dano looks like Elliott Smith.

But having said that I don't think I really want to see a movie about a dude who got molested his whole childhood and then butchered himself with a steak knife. Call me crazy.

An REM one would work because they have connections to almost every musician listed here. There could be dozens of cameos. Plus it would be uplifting as hell. Small town underdogs make it big against all odds. Yadda yadda yadda.

How about Montserrat Caballe?

She was quite the diva, and she had her connection to Freddie Mercury, as well.

REM are the Kevin Bacon of music. They're connected to literally everyone who ever picked up a guitar.

The film about Madonna's early years was released earlier this year. Madonna would not cooperate and disavowed it. She'll never do a biopic.

The best stories would be Fleetwood Mac, Led Zepplin and Prince.

We also need more biopics from disco and hip hop. Donna Summer would be great. Something more comprehensive about the East/West coast hip hop rivalry would also be great.

Springsteen. Hes already written the autobiography.

Patti Smiths " Just Kids" would make a good movie.

Both "La Bamba" and "Selena" movies were some good storytelling.

It's proof that you can take the life of pretty much any singer and make it interesting, although both Ritchie Valens and Selena died tragically, which made the stories more compelling.

I'd like to see a good Ricky Nelson film, not that shit one VH1 did. Brenda Lee should get one or a miniseries, like they did in the UK for Cilla Black.

A Tanya Tucker biopic would be compelling, especially covering her affair with Glen Campbell and her drug and alcohol abuse.

I really want the Janis Joplin one to get made, I just have never seen an actress or singer that I think could pull it off, especially Amy Adams.

I'm surprised Dolly hasn't had one covering her whole life, just those childhood movies.

BTW...In case anyone doesn't know there is a new Lifetime movie coming about Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline's friendship.

Roy Orbison

MJ.

I would love to see a biopic of Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton. Her original recording of Hound Dog predated the Elvie version by four years. She also wrote and recorded Ball and Chain in the early 1960s but her record company refused to release it...then in 1967 Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company released her version of it. Big Mama's record company kept the copyright to themselves so In a 1972 interview, Thornton acknowledged giving Joplin permission to record the song and receiving royalty payments from its sales. She applauded Janis' version of "Ball and Chain," saying, "That girl feels like I do." Eventually Big Mama and Janis Joplin became friends and performed together on a few shows.

Little Richard.

The undisputed king of rock and roll.

Janet

Janet Jackson is too fucked up. And not in an interesting way, but in a weird way.

You couldn't do a movie about any of the Jacksons, because they're just so fucking strange.

Not only that, but they all lie, so nobody really knows the truth about what goes on, and what went on in the Jackson family. It's all hushed up.

Guns N' Roses

There was one supposedly optioned based on the book Reckless Road a few years ago (maybe James Franco - can't remember for sure). It was unofficial though and didn't have the blessing of Axl Rose etc.. Then the original 3 reunited for the world comeback tour and nothing has been heard about the movie since.

The book is worth reading though if you're a rock fan. It's authored by a childhood friend of Slash who memorialised a lot of their early rise to fame in photo's and videos. It's more pictures than straight biography but it feels authentic because the guy was actually there rather than a journo who just researched it years later.

Woody Guthrie or Pete Seeger.

Dylan

Marianne Faithfull has had one hell of a life.

Mama Cass

Woody Guthrie's life story actually reads like Oscar Bait. Plus dude looked exactly like Sean Penn.

Karen Carpenter

ONJ

ooooo Yes, Karen Carpenter would be a great one

R140 See "Bound for Glory"

Amy Winehouse

Elizabeth Cotton.

Prince. Purple Rain was not enough.

Marc Bolan, Roger Waters, Zappa, Joplin, Patti Smith

No biopic could improve on Todd Hayne's Superstar.

Sting

David Bowie would have to be a Netflix or HBO series. John Lennon too.

A movie about Nick Drake.

The B52s

Blonde

R151 I live Nick Drake but I don't think enough is known about his life/ relationships etc to write an accurate script.

None of the Jacksons, including Janet, will ever have a compelling doc because they will never reveal anything honest or interesting. That whole family has been programmed to the bone to project only the most flattering version of everything.

^ Same problem with Karen Carpenter. No one who knows the real story will ever reveal the real story.

Sylvester

Ethel Waters

Yes, R113, Robert Johnson definitely. As for the “nobody knows who they are anymore” argument, people had pretty much forgotten who Fanny Brice was before Funny Girl came out.

Movie biographies should be about trailblazers.

CHER!

Gil Scott Heron

Taco

Madonna starring Julia Michaels

Joni Mitchell. Her life story is rather soap opera-esk.

Dorothy Love Coats, seminal gospel artist whose strong, gruff alto blazing delivery, and magnetic, theatrical stage presence influenced later artists such as Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, The Supremes (who repurposed her composition, "You Can't Hurry God," to "You Can't Hurry Love"), Little Richard, Mavis Staples (and The Staple Singers), Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, and countless others. James Brown even stole her classic "overcome with the Spirit, go down to the floor/leave the stage, and an attendant places a robe on her as she reprises her act" move.

In her retirement she worked with Dr. King in the civil rights movement; in her latter years she even appeared in several films such as [italic]Beloved[/italic] and [italic]The Long Walk Home.[/italic]

Black gospel artists/groups of that time were fucking fascinating in general--the long road trips through a segregated America; the constant poaching of artists by secular record labels; the illicit sex (straight and gay), the infighting and random drama, etc.

When I was young, our church's Children's Choir, Young Adult Choir, Senior Choir, Male Chorus, and Chancel Choir sang just about every one of Dorothy Love Coates's songs, and those of her group, the Gospel Harmonettes.

This is my favorite DLC song, and here you can see what I call her "refined rawness":

Selena, Brian Wilson

In all seriousness Hildegard of Bingen

R164 It's been done: good movie. The first scene is brilliant.

Sister Gertrude Morgan, it would be a great role for Queen Latifah.

Helen Lawson

Maxine Nightingale

Najat Al Saghira and her half sister Soad Hosny

Slim Whitman

Here's a trailer of a documentary about Soad. It has EVERYTHING a gay man wants in a movie.

Ronnie Spector. Her biography read like a fucked up movie.

Roger Miller was wild as hell - so said Glen Campbell (who was also wild as hell)

Bobbie Gentry, of course.

There was a movie on Lifetime about Britney Spears called "Mama, I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can" starring Denny Dillon.

Wow, the actress playing Madonna in that film really looks like her and has her movements down!

Coming soon, “Sting: The Movie” starring Ben Shapiro.

[quote] Madonna starring Julia Michaels

Madonna, starring Lisa Vanderpump.

GrannyPump acting as GrandmaDonna.

Madonna had her movie already.

It was called "Truth or Dare," and it pretty much told you everything you need to know about her.

To use that tired old line, "there's no THERE, there."

Madonna’s will be great but she needs to be dead or in her 80s+ before it’s attempted. She’ll control too much of the narrative and people won’t speak the truth before then.

Same with a Mariah movie. It’ll be a fluffy lifetime type shit fest if it’s done before she’s 70.

you know what? in thinking about this question, I am suddenly super duper interested in a Grace Jones life movie.

LIZA MINNELLI.

Most people won't go to see a Liza Minnelli movie. She appeals to a very specific demographic.

There are other more interesting people who have bigger fan bases and better stories.

"From Brooklyn to the Bu: Barbara Becoming Barbra"

[quote]I rather want the story of the marriage between the houses of The Pretenders & Simple Minds and how it all shook out.

You left out the best part: Chrissie was with rock god Ray Davies before Kerr. Then Kerr dumped her for Patsy Kensit, who dumped him for Liam Gallagher. What a soap opera.

I think a movie about the Go-Gos could be compelling. After they hit it big it was all downhill in a drug fueled soap opera, but you could still have the hopeful decades later ending.

And then there's Whitney Houston. From the Queen of Pop to drug fueled mess - seemingly getting it together and appearing at an industry event that could have kicked off her redemption and then...not so much. Drowning in a drug fueled stupor in her hotel bathtub. I smell Janelle Monae's Oscar.

Another soap opera: the Geldof-Yates-Hutchence saga.

I think that Whitney's story is one that could possibly be told truthfully, despite protests from her mother Cissy.

Bobby Brown and her girlfriend Robyn would definitely be willing to spill the beans. For the right price.

They don't need Cissy's side of the story.

[quote]That old, bald British guy with the bad wig who was convicted of murder.

Do you mean Phil Spector? He isn’t British but there’s a lot there. Boy wonder producer, the Wall of Sound, all those great pop songs ... then marriage, keeping his wife basically a prisoner till she flees ... playing with guns in the studio with the Ramones and I don’t know what all else. Then picking up that poor actress.

It would be a guaranteed supporting nomination for the actress who plays Ronnie.

That's the guy, R188! Thanks!

Grace Slick

How come no one has mentioned the Beach Boys? Crazy abusive father, the Manson connection, Dennis drowning, etc.. Plus they are an American institution. Shame on you guys for having 191 replies and no mention of them!

Diana Ross/Supremes

Michael Hutchence

Dylan.

Dolly.

Leonard C.

Tammy W.

Phil Spector.

There was a TV movie about the Beach Boys -- mostly on Dennis, I think.

R135 rsspppppppp

R23 *RAPID TOM FILLS* ROCK-FACTS! ROCK -FACTS! ROCK-FACTS!

One Direction. So much homoeroticism.

I'd love to see a scripted movie about the Go-Go's with a great cast. That late 70s early 80s California punk/New Wave era is interesting. I don't think it will happen, since we are getting this:

Because there already was one, R192.

And it was great.

R194 Not a Michael Hutchence movie, but a doc that might go into wide release soon.

Jan and Dean.

"Irene Cara: I Want To Live Forever"

A new Lifetime Original movie

Has there been one about Whitney Houston?

R205 - If they do one, Debra Wilson better play her.

Damn, I miss those parodies r206

There’s supposedly a Bee Gees biopic in the early stages and a documentary much further along. It’s hard to imagine how a film could cover it all — from Manchester to Australia to Miami, with three (or four?) actors who are similar enough to believably be brothers but different enough to believably be Barry, Robin, and Maurice (and Andy?). There could be a great story from like 1966-1971, covering leaving Australia, their initial success, the break-up, followed by the reunion and ending with ‘How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?’ being a hit.

R208 - The Hemsworth Bothers could play two of them.

A movie about Freddie Mercury that actually tells the whole sordid truth. BR was a fluffy feel good movie, a long music video if you will. Where was the meat?

I do wonder about the "meat" of a lot of these stories, r210. I love the BeeGees but is there a real story there? Other than, hey fame and money are fun, then they kinda suck, then maybe they get fun again?

Baltimora

Dusty Springfield!

Michelle Phillips!

Sammy Davis Jr.

PBS has a great American Masters Doc in him.

It would have to be a mini series though. He had a lot going on.

Buddy Rich

Connie Francis

217 replies and no mention of DL Icon Lindsay Lohan???

Wasn't Connie raped in a motel somewhere, then had a nervous breakdown?

R194, Michael Hutchence and INXS might make a good story, but film makers might avoid it because he committed suicide at the end.

People usually stay away from that topic.

Jeffree Star. He's a true original.

Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, even Robert Johnson but that's going back quite a spell

Grace Slick!

[quote]How come no one has mentioned the Beach Boys? Crazy abusive father, the Manson connection, Dennis drowning, etc.. Plus they are an American institution. Shame on you guys for having 191 replies and no mention of them!

They already got three movies including the recent theatrical release [italic]Love and Mercy[/italic] with John Cusack as Brian Wilson.

"Wilson Phillips... Behind the Blow!"

Did they really break up because of Carnie? And why do they hate each other so much now?

Carnie must have really hated those other two skinny bitches.

I'd love to know what she REALLY thought of them.

I'd nominate PiNK LADY & JEFF........................

You know they're desperate for new acts: television, Vegas and all the clubs. Of course music changes so much, the act will have to be brought up to date. -Miss Jane Hudson

MOUTH & MacNEAL .....

Now there's a duo with a real back story ! !

R211 me and my sister have this running joke that Barry is a narcissist who murdered all his brothers - hence ‘Bee Gees’ (The Barry Gibbs rather than Brothers Gibb). That would be an interesting AU..

A Bette Midler movie just based on her time at the Continental Baths would be amazing. Following her through later decades wouldn't be very interesting - she hasn't had a crazy tabloid-fodder life.

Liza, showing her build her own career away from her mother through to Liza with a Z and winning the Oscar.

R113/R222 the 80s movie CROSSROADS with Jami Gertz & Ralph Macchio touches on elements of Robert Johnson’s life, and the OST is compiled in reference to him.

Steve Vai is memorably in the final act.

Kaptain Kool and the Kongs

[quote]A Bette Midler movie just based on her time at the Continental Baths would be amazing. Following her through later decades wouldn't be very interesting - she hasn't had a crazy tabloid-fodder life.

They could cover the failure of her TV show and how she got blamed for it rather than Les Moonves' misogyny.

Oasis (specifically the brothers Liam & Noel)

Speaking of Oasis, for a while it was rumored that one of the Gallaghers was going to be involved in turning the book ‘The World’s Longest Cocktail Party’ into a movie. The book is a memoir of the author’s time working as an assistant to Beatles PR man Derek Taylor at Apple in the late 60s. Seems like that project died about 10 years ago.

I'd like to see a move about the Jefferson Airplane. A story about the band amid the changing landscape of the 1960's- 70's--, the war in Vietnam, the hippie movement and San Francisco. The creativity and music explosion of that time would make an interesting backdrop. All the musicians of that era as cameos (David Crosby and Joni Mitchell were on the same show). The Airplane were the Fleetwood Mac of the hippie era.

Lotte Lenya

Hey, I know someone posted it above as a joke, but this is the real Jeffree Star, and I really think I DO deserve a movie based on my life.

I've overcome a lot of crap in my life: drugs, botched lip surgery, social anxiety...it's not easy, okay?

And I'm also a role model for A LOT of people. And I really think my life story would inspire them even more.

And to all the haters who say I'm not a legitimate singer or musician...FUCK YOU! I have more talent than about half the so-called singers out there right now. So go screw yourselves. You and this hateful site can just shove each other up each other's assholes! Because that's what you all are...ASSHOLES! Go to fucking hell.

Neil Young

Klaus Nomi

Celia Cruz

Mistinguett

Awkwafina. She's so fucking brave.

Jason Donovan

[quote] It seems to be all the rage in Hollywood now, with the success of "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Rocketman."

"Rocketman" has yet to be even released, at least in the United States. So why are you calling it a success?

Amanda Lear née Alain Tapp puis Péki d'Oslo

One of the really great, old school, very likable transsexuals. Knew EVERYONE and been everywhere. A success! But I guess she'll have to die before this story ever gets filmed.

[quote] Oasis (specifically the brothers Liam & Noel)

That would be GIGANTIC in the USA!!!

Penny McLean

"Look at Me: A Girl's Strange, Erotic Journey from Klagenfurt am Wörthersee to Manhattan."

[quote] "Rocketman" has yet to be even released, at least in the United States. So why are you calling it a success?

Because it hasn't been released, and yet it's EVERYWHERE. Just fucking everywhere.

The pr machine promoting it is working overtime, and there's no way that they will let it fail.

R4 There was a Morrissey film out a few years ago, iirc.

Look everyone! We have a STAH in our midst, at R238!!

yes, you seem like you'd be really easy to work with and open to reasonable criticism, Stah Jeffree.

Biopics about celebrities who are alive are usually god-awful, even worse than paint-by-numbers biopics about dead people.

A film about the Laurel Canyon scene could be interesting: Joni Mitchell, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Linda Ronstadt, Cass Elliot, Jackson Browne etc.

I enjoy Bob Dylan's music, but I don't think a biopic about him would be very good. I'm Not There was enough. Lord, remember when Hayden Christensen played a thinly veiled character based on him in that Edie Sedgwick biopic from a decade ago?

R246 - Jeffree Star could play Amanda. He has the range!

Red Hot Chili Peppers/Anthony Kiedis could be interesting. I'm not particularly a fan, but Scar Tissue was a good read.

I liked the film on Woodstock, but it worked because most of the main characters were fictional.

An honest movie about Bob Dylan would talk about all the work he did for the CIA.

The New York Dolls

The Del Rubio Triplets. Meryl could handle it.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

R234/R247 don’t forget the Gallagher story proffers homoerotic incestual overtones, which ought to please you catamites.

And I have it on good authority that as children they were so poor their mother fed them on gravel and dishwater. There’s a fine Dickensian plot if ever I heard one.

I say let them have a go at a script based on their sufferings & travails. Mancs in legitimate work is always a welcome development, and there’s not been a decent British comedy in a while has there?

The Captain and Tenille

OMG Bob Dylan was working for the CIA?

R211, I think if it was well done, the ‘meat’ of the story would be them getting forced back together by circumstance but then — sort of — triumphing anyways. Their reunion happened as much because of financial interests (Stigwood making his company public) as because of emotional or artistic ones. On some level they drove each other crazy (particularly Robin and Barry), but they also seemed to have essentially no meaningful relationships with anyone else (besides their wives and children). There’s a quote from their mother in one biography about them, talking about how they never really had friends as children or teenagers, that “they were always sufficient in each other”. I just find that dynamic fascinating, I guess — the love and dependency and jealousy, the shifting loyalties (Maurice staying with Barry as a Bee Gee while his twin goes solo, Barry supposedly saying that he always felt the twins were conspiring against him, their father telling the press that Robin was having a mental breakdown when he left, etc)...

But I’m not a screenwriter, so who knows. It probably couldn’t really be written like that while Barry or the twins’ widows are alive.

Connie Francis....long awaited.

There was a long line of actresses considered to play Connie Francis. Beverly D'Angelo spent some time with the role. Valerie Bertinelli and Michelle Pfeiffer were considered. Gloria Estefan was the one who expressed the most desire to play Connie and she and Connie spent years with the manuscript. Once Connie ended the idea, Dolly Parton expressed the desire to produce it. Gloria believed that she would be in contention for an Oscar. Yet, she had very little acting experience. Connie had previously stated, and then later, after the idea with Gloria ended, that she would like an unknown to play her.

Many have been scrapped. There were to be a bio-movies on Lena Horne (I believe Janet Jackson was to play her), Dusty Springfiled (Nicole Kidman), and Etta James (Beyonce). Etta was against Beyonce playing her. Not to mention Connie Francis (Gloria Estefan).

Samantha Fox, of course.

I love Nicole Kidman, but she was totally wrong for Dusty Springiled!

[quote]Klaus Nomi

That could really be a compelling indie movie. His unlikely rise in the early 80's East Village club scene would be interesting enough - but the fact he was one of the first celebrities (major or minor) to succumb to AIDS adds an extra layer.

And they could throw some cash at still kicking Joey Arias as a consultant.

Badfinger. Although it would be unbelievably depressing.

Tom Jones. We can hear about him stopping a dildo in his pants as well as his gay liaisons

Aren't they making a movie about Nina Simone? There was talk that the actress playing her wasn't black enough.

r274, the movie was released back in 2016; yes, Zoe Saldana was criticized for not being "black enough."

Who did Tom Jones have gay liaisons with, R273?

TAKE ME AS I AM: THE TRUE STORY OF CARLY SIMON.........CARLY SIMON played by DONNA MILLS and singing dubbed by ANN WILSON.....mother ANDREA SIMON played by JANE FONDA..... with JAMES TAYLOR played by JAKE GYLLENHAAL.........2nd husband .JIM HART played by JOHN HAMM (his fantasy gay nude love scenes will be epic).....JOANNA SIMON played by FELICITY HUFFMAN as part of a plea deal....... and the late WALTER CRONKITE played by animatronic LORNE GREENE.......LUCY SIMON played by BRIDGET FONDA........MICK JAGGER played by himself.

The Monkees

I second Marc Bolan. Tough time starting out, meteoric rise to fame, inventing glam rock, weight gain and alcoholism, being eclipsed by friend/rival David Bowie, slimmed down come back with TV show, instant death in a car crash at age 29. He was such an overt, cocky personality, it would be a really great part for an actor.

Gary Glitter

Jobriath.

Grace Jones.

Carole King. There's already a Broadway musical to use as a blueprint.

Rolf Harris

R26 R27 No. The first half would be about George whining about being lonely and the second half whining about Anselmo. No thank you.

Falco

[quote] Mama Cass

—Anonymous

The role I was born to play.

Why is Rocketman being hyped to death??

I feel like it's been out for over a month, but it doesn't even open until May 31.

WTF?

[quote]Who did Tom Jones have gay liaisons with, [R273]?

No comment.

I'd love to see a Leadbelly movie

At least I hope it's better than that terrible Disney movie about the farting astronaut.

Elliott Smith's death is probably too controversial and his family would never get behind anything that made them look bad ( which it would.) Which means his music would be out of bounds.

Leonard Cohen would be interesting. Dustin Hoffman could play his later years.

Who will hire him now?

Vanilla Ice

"Vanilla Ice: Behind the Blow"

Sounds more like a VH-1 special, rather than a full fledged movie.

Duran Duran

Oh yes R64 Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed. This is the perfect trio. Also The Stooges would be very entertaning.

Jani Lane. I hope they don't whitewash his hotel tryst and ensuing death.

Yma Sumac

Tiffany

R193, The Supremes, YES! In fact I've been working on adapting my books, Dreamgirl and Supreme Faith into a screenplay. Please go to my gofundme page to make this movie a reality.

BTW, did any of you catch my show at Cafe Carlyle? My reviews were Supreme!

Touch.

Perhaps after the publication of her memoir, Miss Streisand's life will be made into a biopic.

R298 Jani seemed one of the few likeable decent guys in that glammy metal scene so he’d actually be an ideal tragic protagonist. It would be kickass to hear some of their less famous songs and albums get some play on a soundtrack, like DOG EAT DOG.

Add in the gay element for cred points plus plenty of cameos & Easter eggs from the still-kicking hair-band contingent like L.A. Guns, and you have yourself a hit.

Definitely Prince. The fact that he died in an elevator and sung about it on one of his songs-- Let's Get Crazy--is proof enough.

The new Scorsese movie about Dylan on Netflix is weirdly semi-fictionalized.

I'd say Bowie but wasn't that Velvet Goldmine?The public wouldn't go see it but the old jazz and blues musicians all had very interesting lives. I'd love to see a film version of Jelly Roll Morton or Buddy Bolden's lives.

[quote]The Janis Joplin movie has never gotten off the ground and I believe Amy Adams has been attached to it for a few years

I thought it was Michelle Williams attached to the movie.

[quote] The new Scorsese movie about Dylan on Netflix is weirdly semi-fictionalized.

That pisses me off. Americans can't be authentic about fucking anything.

EVERYBODY has been "attached" to a movie about Janis Joplin: Melissa Etheridge, Courtney Love, Pink, Nina Arianda, Reese Witherspoon, Zooey Deschanel, Renee Zellweger, Laura Theodore, Lili Taylor, Brittany Murphy, Amy Adams. There's been talk of a Janis Joplin movie for decades. It's never happened, probably because it's not meant to happen. NO ONE could really do Janis Joplin justice on the screen. She was a force of nature.

Kiss. I think it could be quite a movie. Theirs was quite a wild story.

[quote] Mama Cass.

R58 they could get the artist Meatloaf to play the sandwich.

Stevie Wonder. Oscar bait. (See "Ray.")

To have a movie made for release in movie theaters the artist would have to have had an iconic hit that still relevant to today's average movie goer, someone in their 20's-30's. Most of these people while they might make an interesting movie, the 20-30 crowd just wouldn't pay to see it.

Zamfir, Master of the Pan Flute

I still can't believe that no one has managed to make a successful film out of the life of Hank Williams, Sr. everything is there for a great movie. And, Hank Williams isn't largely unknown, he is still a major historical figure in popular music.

Maybe an Aretha Franklin movie?

R315, Tom Hiddleston starred in a movie about Hank Williams that nobody saw.

R315 That was my point, I can't believe that they haven't managed to make a GOOD movie out of his life.

There's a great YouTube fan-webseries about the Yacht Rock scene, titled simply 'Yacht Rock'. It's hilarious and surprisingly clever in a meta way.

I would love to get friends together and give the more obscure hair metal scene the same treatment, or maybe the British invasion of hardrock & metal.

Igor Stravinsky - gorgeous music, controversy with the Rite of Spring and the Star-Spangled Banner and he lived in interesting times

Thom Yorke. Yes really.

"Blame It On The Rain: The Milli Vanilli Story"

Eartha Kitt

Klaus Nomi. Gay, AIDS... the whole early-80's, NYC nightmare of ecstasy. And there was a lot of behind-the-scenes bitterness of people who felt he was ungrateful for their contribution to his success.

Sly Stone. Unbelievably brilliant, unjustly forgotten, brought down by his demons and cocaine, wrote great "woke" songs like Underdog and Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey. Did everything Prince did, but did it first, and did it better. Insane life -- rags to riches to rags. Outrageous style. And he's still alive. And maybe there could be a kind of happy ending for him for real.

The Mamas and The Papas, from Michelle's point of view.

The legendary Toyah Willcox!

None of the following were huge commercial artists but their lives would make interesting movies:

Sandy Denny

Nick Drake

Syd Barrett

Mia Zapata

Phil Ochs

Willie DeVille

Rebecca Black.

Hello Dolly!

Keith and Anita