Don't get me wrong - Walk the Line was fantastic, Joaquin Phoenix was an awesome Johnny Cash. Im also sure Ray and Jamie whats his face was great....
But do we need anymore of them? Im not so sure - certainly not people who arent dead anyway!
Elijah Wood (of all people) has apparently signed on to play Iggy Pop in a biopic called The Passenger. With all due respect to young Frodo he's too... nice and clean looking to play a punk rock god.
Mike Myers is also apparently gonna play Who drummer - Keith Moon. Christian Bale is signed on to play Bob Dylan and last but by no means least Renee Zellwegger is gonna play Janis Joplin.
It's no coincidence that both Ray and Walk the Line picked up leading Actor Oscars (Foxx and Witherspoon). To me the production houses seem to have seen the awards coming in and are therefore flooding the market.
To me its a fairly safe bet that at least a couple of these will be ignorred or fall into the dreaded straight to DVD category. Aside from Frodo being inappropriate, im just not sure people really want to watch a film about Iggy Pop yes he's a legend but really do we need a movie?? And to be honest Id bet that most people today wouldnt remember Keith Moon. Dont even start me on fucking Zellwegger.
As for Bob Dylan, id watch that at least, but im pretty sure the studios are banking on him carking it, maybe they will hold this in preproduction until he at least is admitted to hospital!
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