Upcoming movie about Boy George and Culture Club

Didn’t they already make a movie about Boy George? The Crying Game?

Has the part been cast? Because he looks a lot like my Norma and apparently I'm not too old to play anything. Plus, I really need an Oscar before I am wheelchair bound.

Colton Haynes is "in talks" to play Audun Carlsen, the prostitute George beat up and handcuffed to a radiator during "a psychotic episode".

Why doesn’t he just asked Sophie Turner to play him?

I would argue that Boy George is far more interesting than Freddie Mercury. Heroin addiction, tying a hustler to the radiator, that messy affair with John Moss, being pals with Marilyn (fellow drag pop star) and Leigh Bowery, the Blitz Club new romantic scene, his bickerings with then closeted George Michael... I hate biopics in general but would watch the shit out of that one.

Joan Cusak is the obvious choice for Boy George.

Russell Tovey must be a shoo-in for Kirk Brandon in a bleach blond wig.

This will undoubtedly focus on early years, and only mention his jail time briefly, if at all.

I bet he has a lot of good stories!

I will be watching.

Cutie Douglas Booth played Boy in that TV movie.

I hope they get a better Jon Moss than last time. Mathew Horne was so miscast.

I can see Griffin Gluck as Kirk Brandon.

[Quote] I hate biopics in general but would watch the shit out of that one.

Then track down "Worried About the Boy." It's quite good. Marc Warren is great as Steve Strange.

George Mackay is in a similar ballpark to Kirk Brandon but he probably wouldn't take such a small role. He has a long nose, like Marilyn. Perhaps he could be dragged up to look prettier.

George said in an interview last year that 'a very famous popstar' was going to play him and when the interviewer suggested Harry Styles, George didn't deny it. Harry looks nothing like him, though, and has clearly pulled out if he was ever attached in the first place. Douglas Booth already aced the role in the 2010 film Mad About the Boy.

[Quote] Douglas Booth already aced the role in the 2010 film Mad About the Boy.

And he's never been good since.

Olly Alexander could probably be dragged up pretty well to look like George.

Can the young Fiennes act at all? I could see him as Jon Moss.

Alex Lawther's face is sufficiently blank slate. It would be nice to have family in the title role...

Jonathan Bailey is probably too mature but he has the right cheeky energy for Jon Moss.

Hero Fiennes Tiffin is 6ft 2 with huge green eyes. Moss needs to be dark, almost Latino looking and about 5ft 9.

Jon Moss had light eyes, no?

Moss was very sexy back in the day.

Bright eyes.

[quote] Moss was very sexy back in the day.

Yes, he was.

Somewhere, there's a calendar with about a hundred gallons of my jizz splashed all over this photo. I wanted Jon inside me quite deeply.

(And this was long before I ever knew Jon and George had been a thing.)

[quote]George said in an interview last year that 'a very famous popstar' was going to play him

It will be DL Fave Sam Smith!

He didn't say no to a crop top.

Sam Smith?

Ugh, that fat thing?

Brandon Flynn isn't a million miles away from George in the facial stakes.

I cannot see Harry Styles playing Boy George in any universe. Sam Smith perhaps, but certainly not Harry Styles. Neither one of them would instigate any interest in my to see this movie. Besides, much of Mercury's, Elton's, Ray Charles' & James Brown's stories happened well before mass tabloids, MTV & social media, so a movie about them had more entertainment/info value. The Culture Club/Boy George story has been told in real time & then by the actual players many, many, many times over the years. Why watch an actor playing Boy George throw a hussy fit when I can watch Boy George himself throw a hussy fit in any amount of archival footage online?

Is a hussy fit any different than a hissy fit?

I'm a fit hussy

Nonsense. Elton and Freddie were not that long before Boy George.

[Quote] Why watch an actor playing Boy George throw a hussy fit when I can watch Boy George himself throw a hussy fit in any amount of archival footage online?

You could say the same about Elton. Or Madonna.

When did Sam Smith turn into a downmarket Emma Thompson?

All she needs is some sun and a cig and she'll be Dot Cotton

My fat fingers! But had George & Miss Dionne got into it after their Solid Gold duet I'd assume that would be a hussy fit.

Dot Cotton's son played George's father in the BBC TV biopic. He spoke with a bad Irish accent even though George's father did not speak with an Irish accent.

I never got the Boy George and Jon Moss coupling. Jon could do way better.

Jon was ambitious. I expect that was part of it.

The back story has always interested me. Dressing-up in outlandish outfits and taking the train to the big city clubs with other young scenesters; squatting in abandoned buildings; the sudden success; his unhappy love affair with the closeted band member; the drugs; the fall from the charts; the arrests...

I hate Sam Smith but he looks like George.

"I would argue that Boy George is far more interesting than Freddie Mercury."

But much less likeable, and IMHO that was the big problem with the Elton John movie - Elton himself was a bad-tempered twat and not a very sympathetic protagonist. One of the reasons the Queen movie worked was because Rami Malek managed to put both Mercury's star quality and his essential sweetness on the screen, so the audience liked him and rooted for him to overcome the problems he created for himself through bad decisions.

That wasn't the case with the Elton movie, the protagonist was hard to root for, and it'll be a problem with a movie about Boy George - who is just as much a bad-tempered twat as Elton. Only he's done some things that are worse than just get addicted to drugs.

[quote] I never got the Boy George and Jon Moss coupling. Jon could do way better.

George was compelling and a force of nature. I think there was real affection there, at least at first.

Like many bands, success killed off most of that affection.

George can be very charming. Elton, not so much.

George said that the famous popstar playing the role wasn't Sam Smith but got coy when Styles' name was mentioned. Sam is way too hefty to play a young George although his voice is right. Plus we have no clue whether he can act whereas Styles was okay in Dunkirk.

Jon Moss was adopted by a rich Jewish couple as a baby and attended two famous public schools in Highgate. He got into Cambridge University to study Greek but decided not to take up the place. No wonder BG found him fascinating.

Sam Smith's speaking voice is much too light for George.

I cannot believe the blatant and literal violence you've directed towards Sam in your comment, r47. Do you really want to hurt them? Do you really want to make them cry?

Jon Moss is only Jewish through adoption? Does he know his ethnic background by birth?

To me Jon looks a little middle eastern or even asian. Dark hair, dark eyes, olive skin.

Apparently Moss was born in a Jewish Boys Home, from which he was adopted. Would such a home only accept babies from Jewish parents? Or is the rationale to raise orphans as Jewish?

Did Moss wear colored contacts? There are numerous pics where his eyes are light.

Rocco Ritchie *is* Boy George.

Boy George kicked Jon Moss out of the band a couple years ago and Jon is suing him. The rest of the members kept quiet because Boy is the star of Culture Club.

Kiss

Holding hands

Happy couple

They were quite obvious in the 80’s and were not hiding it.

Boy George clearly needs the cash from a big biopic.

He may get money by being a producer in return for the rights plus it will bolster interest (and money) in his music.

Can't see him wanting to forever being a judge on Australian talent shows.

Celebrities get zero cash from their own biopic unless they're on the production team.

Honestly Boy George’s story would be much better off as a self-narrated documentary, like The Kid Stays In the Picture.

John Boyega as Mickey Craig might get the SW fans in the seats. 😆

[quote]Boy George kicked Jon Moss out of the band a couple years

All the hot guys get kicked out of bands.

It is a wasted opportunity if Sam Smith doesn’t play George. He is perfect.

Sam Smith makes most people want to vomit.

Sam may be repulsive as a person,but i think he would be perfect as Boy. Hell,hes been trying to be George for years. Jon Moss was beautiful ,no wonder George couldnt ever seem to get over it or stop trying to make him pay for dumping his ass.

It's not only Jon Moss. Kirk Brandon was also a target. And there was some therapist's son whom he dubbed Julian in song.

Have you heard George speak? No way could Sam Smith capture him.

R68 Why not ? George isnt Oxford educated or anything.Its not like he has a posh accent. Nobody loved Boy George as much as I did,but as I got older I realized his "sense of humor" was really just maliciousness more than wit or charm. Several of his songs however,are on my top playlist and always will be. He was the soundtrack of my 20s ,many of his songs bring back such great memories. Doesnt mean hes not a nasty bitch .

George is working class. Sam Smith is not. I doubt he could channel George's energy offstage.

Sam Smith can't act so it's pointless discussing this, plus George was much slimmer than Sam as a young man and downright scrawny as a heroin addict. Douglas Booth already captured his youth. George has been lobbying for Harry Styles (who he loves) to play the role and made sure he presented Styles with his Grammy for Watermelon Sugar, but I think Styles knows they don't look alike enough and has refused the project.

R71 Sam isn’t fat anymore.

It's probably Olly Alexander.

Olly looks nothing like him! Far too short and skinny. George is 6 foot.

He'll act tall.