B.B. King is actually getting two films about his life while the Richard Pryor biopic, being written and produced by Kenya Barris, was finally greenlit by MGM.
There's only one music biopic in the post-'Walk Hard' era that has managed to transcend it, with a creative structure and an innovative approach. And that movie is the Brian Wilson biopic 'Love & Mercy.'
It was announced this week that Warner Brothers will produce a full-on biopic of Elvis, with young actor Austin Butler playing the legendary rock star. The film will focus on the relationship between Presley and Parker.
It's official, 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is a box office hit and given Hollywood's never-ending copycat tendencies, that means we're about to get many more music biopics. So let's imagine an alternate world in which music rights are no object, nor is the necessary approval or control of surviving band members, and examine some music biopics that haven't happened yet, but should.
Get ready for possibly the drunkest rock biopic of all time, as Josh Boone is set to direct a no-holds-barred film on the notorious Minneapolis punk band.
The film is set to star South African actor Johnny Flynn and its first pics have just dropped online.
'Bohemian Rhapsody' is a fun, albeit shallow, ride that takes us through some of Queen's biggest hits while largely avoiding the seedier parts of Mercury's tale. More of a celebration than a hard-hitting biopic.
I, Tonya, which won a Golden Globe for supporting actress Allison Janney and since notched acting Oscar nominations for both Janney and Margot Robbie, has shown that there’s an appetite out there for nontraditional sports biopics, telling versions of stories that you thought you knew well, but telling them from a surprising or counter-intuitive angle.
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