Who would you have liked to see play your favorite artists?

Personally i would have liked to see Diana Ross play Josephine Baker in the old days, like she talked about doing.

And what about Jennifer Aniston playing Babs? Not sure she reminds me that much of Babs, but i lOVE the pics where she dressed like Streisand

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SunnySkies said:

Who would you have liked to see play your favorite artists?

Personally i would have liked to see Diana Ross play Josephine Baker in the old days, like she talked about doing.

And what about Jennifer Aniston playing Babs? Not sure she reminds me that much of Babs, but i lOVE the pics where she dressed like Streisand

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I would love to see a Rick james Biopic. I heard there's a Freddie Mercury one in the works as well as Liberace. I just love Biopics!

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It would've been a wild biopic. Loretta Devine was supposed to play her story in the mid-90s but for some reason, the script was left to collect dust.

Voices Of East Harlem

B.B. King

Ozzy Osbourne

Kraftwerk

Jimmy Stewart

Michelle Yeoh or Angela Mao

Johnnie Taylor

Sam Cooke

Mandrell Sisters

Duran Duran

Babe Dickerson Zaharias

5th Dimension

Rufus Thomas

Mary Pickford

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Rick James

George Clinton

Sly Stone

Barry White

Eric Clapton

Miles Davis

Elton John

Al Green

Prince

Freddie Mercury

Marc Bolan

Lou Reed

David Bowie

The Sex Pistols

Patti Smith

Gladys Knight

The Marvelettes

Prince

Tammi Terrell

Klaus Nomi

Boy George/Culture Club

Steve Strange

Adam Ant

Siouxsie Sioux

Poly Styrene

Minnie Riperton

Stevie Wonder

Brian Jones (the real story, not the fictionalized one)

Iggy Pop

Alice Cooper

MADONNA

Patti Smith

Fionna Apple

Sam Cooke

Mary Wells

Tammi Terrell

Freddie Mercury

Marvin Gaye

Rick James

Luther Vandross

Frankie Lymon (Why Do Fools Fall in Love doesnt count)

Janis Joplin

Joe Strummer

Miles Davis

Michael Jackson (Most likely wont live to see that)

Basically any entertainer whose lives were cut short will make the best biopic.

1sotrue said:

Sam Cooke

Mary Wells

Tammi Terrell

Freddie Mercury

Marvin Gaye

Rick James

Luther Vandross

Frankie Lymon (Why Do Fools Fall in Love doesnt count)

Janis Joplin

Joe Strummer

Miles Davis

Michael Jackson (Most likely wont live to see that)

Basically any entertainer whose lives were cut short will make the best biopic.

RIGHT!!!

Timmy84 said:

Freddie Mercury

Marc Bolan

Lou Reed

David Bowie

The Sex Pistols

Patti Smith

Gladys Knight

The Marvelettes

Prince

Tammi Terrell

Klaus Nomi

Boy George/Culture Club

Steve Strange

Adam Ant

Siouxsie Sioux

Poly Styrene

Minnie Riperton

Stevie Wonder

Brian Jones (the real story, not the fictionalized one)

Iggy Pop

Alice Cooper

I'd take acting classes just so I can audition for a Stevie biopic

I am sure we will get to see all of these biopics made, but I have to imagine the Rick James one to be the funnest one. It's hard to imagine anyone making this one boring.

V10LETBLUES said:

I am sure we will get to see all of these biopics made, but I have to imagine the Rick James one to be the funnest one. It's hard to imagine anyone making this one boring.

Yeah but Dave Chappelle made the right move to not do it. It's odd the sketch that made him famous is one of the reasons why he ultimately quit the show and went back underground/or at least as a stand-up.

Sammy Davis Jr.

Tommy Davidson or Eddie Griffin need to play him, either one. Both are spot on.

There needs to be one based on this. The book is HIGHLY exploitative and fabricated (as are most unauthorized bios), but it would make one helluva TV movie.

2 different covers

As for who would play Janet, Keshia Knight Pulliam has always said that she wanted to play her

A quote from Keshia from a couple of years ago: “My dream role is to play Janet Jackson, if she ever does her life story while I’m still alive – and I’m young enough to play her.”

Gabrielle Union is a big fan, but there's not much of a resemblance

Ciara has the dancing skills, but is too tall and lanky

Kat Graham from The Vampire Diaries remade "Love Will Never Do (Without You)" and "Escapade" earlier this year

Bianca Lawson may be a good choice

SunnySkies said:

Who would you have liked to see play your favorite artists?

Personally i would have liked to see Diana Ross play Josephine Baker in the old days, like she talked about doing.

And what about Jennifer Aniston playing Babs? Not sure she reminds me that much of Babs, but i lOVE the pics where she dressed like Streisand

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NOBODY can replace or play Babs...

Queen Latifah would be right on the point to play Pearl Bailey.

free2bfreeda said:

Queen Latifah would be right on the point to play Pearl Bailey.

Yep or Bessie Smith.

I don't want to see another bio-fiction picture.

lol

Timmy84 said:

Boy George

Amy Winehouse in a movie...

SEANMAN said:

There needs to be one based on this. The book is HIGHLY exploitative and fabricated (as are most unauthorized bios), but it would make one helluva TV movie.

2 different covers

As for who would play Janet, Keshia Knight Pulliam has always said that she wanted to play her

A quote from Keshia from a couple of years ago: “My dream role is to play Janet Jackson, if she ever does her life story while I’m still alive – and I’m young enough to play her.”

Gabrielle Union is a big fan, but there's not much of a resemblance

Ciara has the dancing skills, but is too tall and lanky

Kat Graham from The Vampire Diaries remade "Love Will Never Do (Without You)" and "Escapade" earlier this year

Bianca Lawson may be a good choice

I can't see anyone doing a movie based off an unauthorized bio, least not on the big screen (remember the TV movie on Madonna that was based on an unauthorized bio? lol). Maybe after Janet finally does touch on life issues in her official bio THEN we can talk about a movie about her life but I can't see that happening. Private as she is lol

SunnySkies said:

lol

I can definitely see Debra in a Whitney biopic but then again Whitney's so weird she probably thinks everyone's against her so she won't do it or won't release a biography and probably would sue if someone did a biopic based on that Good Girl/Bad Girl book.

SunnySkies said:

lol

free2bfreeda said:

Queen Latifah would be right on the point to play Pearl Bailey.

Why HASN'T that happened yet?! Like someone else said, she could play Bessie too...

MickyDolenz said:

Is that Genesis?

RKJCNE said:

MickyDolenz said:

Is that Genesis?

Yep.

RKJCNE said:

Is that Genesis?

Sure is.

The biopic of my dreams came true a few years back when Judy Davis played Judy Garland in "Me and My Shadow: Life With Judy Garland" - from the book written by Garland's daughter, Lorna Luft. It deserved all of the awards it received that year!

Now, the rumor is that Anne Hathaway is set to play Garland. I'm just not sure how I feel about that one...

FormerlyKnownAs said:

The biopic of my dreams came true a few years back when Judy Davis played Judy Garland in "Me and My Shadow: Life With Judy Garland" - from the book written by Garland's daughter, Lorna Luft. It deserved all of the awards it received that year!

Now, the rumor is that Anne Hathaway is set to play Garland. I'm just not sure how I feel about that one...

They're planning another one?!