The latest issue of Rolling Stone has an article about the Spike Lee directed James Brown bio pic. Al Sharpton is advising, which makes some sense, I suppose, given his relationship with Brown.

This article also mentions the upcoming Marvin Gaye bio pic, Marvin (2008), with Roberta Flack serving as music supervisor.

More ominously, the article also notes the upcoming film See Me, Feel Me: Keith Moon Naked for Your Pleasure (2009) staring Mike Myers as the Who drummer. WTF?



I don't know, maybe Myers can pull it off. Roger Daltry is co-producer.

Man Keith looked so old toward the end... He lived his life hard

Jesse L Martin will play Marvin Gaye




Ooops! guess I should post a link

http://www.killermovies.c.../5843.html
[Edited 1/29/07 22:27pm]

ThreadCula said:

ThreadCula said:

It looks like there are two Marvin bio-pics being made.

In February 2006, production on an independent film, titled Sexual Healing, a biopic about Gaye's later years, was announced. It was to have been a full-scale biopic of Gaye, but Motown refused to license rights to its Marvin Gaye catalog. It is to start filming in May 2006, starring Jesse L. Martin. Recently news has been made about another Gaye biopic, titled Marvin - The Life Story of Marvin Gaye, being set for production also later this year with singer Roberta Flack supervising on the music and is said to be a full-scale biopic of Gaye.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...arvin_Gaye

This is a rumour..but I heard on the radio that James wanted Levar Burton (Roots, Star Trek) to play him. Levar Burton is a good actor but I don't know if I could see him as James.

There's no point in a bio-pic unless it's gonna be real.

The keith moon one should have his violence gainst his wife in it but i'll bet you they'll leave that out and make him out to be a loveable rogue. Same with Hendrix, miles davis and marvin gaye .

Stax said:

Mmhmm

it's amazing how long it takes for some of these bio-pics to be made.I can't believe that they're just now starting the Marvin Gaye movie! And how many more decades will it take before the Jimi Hendrix movie gets made?

SoulAlive said:

The hendrix movie wil be pointless becuase it will not be real. It's up to his estate to let it happen so they're not gonna present the real jimi.

antichrist said:

You mean they're gonna "sugar coat" his story and not give us the REAL deal?

SoulAlive said:

There's ALREADY a Jimi Hendrix movie. You just have to avoid it for the sake of your eyes.

Harlepolis said:

when did it come out?

SoulAlive said:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0260949/

SoulAlive said:

Of course. The family don;t want everyone knowing how violent he was. They're weren;t happy with a few books which revealed this but they couldn;t stop them. Remeber the hendrix estate is about making money and if Hendrix's image is tainted that could effect merchandise.
Read 'room full of mirrors' for a taste of the real jim; even that holds back, the author was a fan so there's not much detail into the numerous beating Jimi gave to women but you get the idea(sent his gf to emergency room after smashing her face with a glass vodka bottle).

antichrist said:

wow

SoulAlive said:

I know. Jimi once hit a women just becuase she slept with noel redding. He also broke his gf kathy's nose in three places by kicking her in the face while she was on the floor.

I have said before alot of the true genius artists are truly horrible people who inflict horrific things upon others.
Try listening to 'bold as love' now

antichrist said:

He couldn't be worse than Miles Davis

Ask Cicely Tyson all about it. He REALLY fucked that woman up, I'm supriced that she bounced out of that state.

Saw it coming though,,,those men suffered and struggled with the American society which didn't get used to black men getting major royality treatment back then, so they took it out on their women.

Harlepolis said:

Yeah miles was vicious. Society is no excuse at all.
The miles bio will be pathetic i bet becuase there's no way he's gonna be respresented the way he actually was.

antichrist said:

You could say that again

But his book does him justice,,,he gave no apology for his attitude. So did Ike Turner in his "Taking My Name Back" book.

Harlepolis said:

Yeah you're right. At least jimi knew it was wrong and felt bad about it. Even rick james knew he had lost his mind when he was doing crazy sh*t; he acknowledged that.

Axl rose was EVEN WORSE than any of the mentioned. His bio-pic would be something. Sick i tell tyou.

That Hendrix movie was horrible. At this point I've stopped holding my breath for a Jimi flick.The rumours have been running rampant since 1977. And now with Janie in the mix, it will never happen.