Well, not really sure about the whole Selena thing...
A Pink Floyd movie would be cool, as would a Led Zeppelin (watch your spelling, sweetie) flick.
I'm still all about a James Brown movie. Man, The Godfather's life and career would make for a solid film. They could do a movie alone about The Funky Drummer!

Well the dude was also really fuckin' angry. It's not like there wasn't any conflict in his life.

I love the idea of an unconventional Robert Johnson movie, I completely agree that his character and legend would be more interesting to document than his life.

The thing you guys all have to remember about Walk The Line is that it wasn't a full biography on Johnny. It said in the original synopses that it was focused on the period in Johnny's life that spanned his meeting, courting, and marrying June Carter. At that point in his life, she really was the most important thing, so it's not suprising that the movie focused on that. You guys should try watching it again, with that in mind, and maybe it will do better within that context than it did when you thought it was a life story.

Oh, and I believe there's also a Joplin movie in the works.

I understood the premise of 'Walk the Line', and respected the timeframe followed, but I just think it was poorly done and rather uninteresting. Honestly, I think very few people care what happened between Johnny and June. It was all relevent, sure, but not all encompassing. There are more interesting things that happened in Johnny's life that deserved documentation.

If they are going to make this a trend for a while, how 'bout getting some of the more interesting character's in the music world like Tom Waits or Fela Kuti. How 'bout a Frank Zappa movie or someone similar where the censorship issue is prevalent. NWA has some really good story lines and large cast of people, tentatively entitled, “The Rap Pack."

I would really like for there to be a movie on Leon Theremin (Lev Sergeivitch Termen), the inventor of one of the first electronic instruments "the Theremin". I saw a short clip about him in some music documentary and the little snippets about his personal life were very interesting. Although he is more known as an inventor, he was also a musician who was misunderstood (can you imagine trying to sell electronic music in the 1920s?)and he led a very miserable life until he disappeared mysteriously.

Since I'm on the "olden days trip" I should include John Cage in this. I would love to see a film about him and his musical adventures. Maybe his doesn't have to be a movie, but more of a documentary that really researches and gets deep in the history of his actions and what made him do such innovative things in the 20s and 30s.

mpittman: Yeah I'd love to see something about Fela Kuti. If I'm not mistaken, wasn't he an African rebel leader who used music to get his views across to people? Yeah, if that's right then you bet I wanna see a film about him.

You got it. I think it would make one hell of a 3 hour political statment. Not to mention the music that's larger than life anyway.

I can't imagine anyone trying to sell electronic music now.

This guy sounds cool, though. There simply would be no market for a movie about a dude that's practically unknown. The budget would be almost non-existant. It would have to be an art film (whatever that is) in order to justify such a budget.

Looking back through this thread, it seems a lot of what was discussed is now coming into fruitition. The James Brown biopic is in the works, and the script was apparently approved by the Minister of the New Super Heavy Funk himself before he left us. The Jimi film is now in a rewrite stage, with Jimi's brother giving full consent on behalf of the Hendrix Estate to do the film. It looks like an Aretha Franklin biopic is being put together. AND, a film a really really really really hope will see the light of day: the life and legend of Mr Louis Prima.

There are still others that need to be done: Robert Johnson, Marvin Gaye, Louis Armstrong, among others. I haven't heard anything else on the Ian Curtis film.

1. Are you talking about the film that was supposed to star Andre3000 as Jimi. Not only didn't the Estate approve it, they wouldn't allow them to use Jimi's original music....so it's either dead or on life-support.


2. If you're talking about some other film....considering Leon and his and Jimi's half-sister Janie don't talk and Leon has no say in the running of the Estate, I doubt that the Estate is involved and they will most likely have the same issues about the music.



I never cared for bio's of musicians....most of them are crap. You rarely learn anything about the musician and they always tend to dwell on only the negatives. That's when they're not inserting or inventing things that never occurred in the musician's life.


Take that abomination by Eastwood about Bird. Outside of the fact that he was a major Heroin addict a newbie wouldn't have learned one thing about why he was one of the most important musicians in Modern Music.