10 Musicians Who Deserve A Biopic
The popular-musician biopic well, usually good for dredging up a bucketful of Oscar nominations. is starting to run a little dry. Almost all the good ones have been done and most of the others are about to happen. The James Brown biopic, Get On Up, now has a trailer (It’s from Tate ‘Captain Mawkish’ Taylor, who made The Help, but let’s hope for the best/least-patronising). The Freddie Mercury biopic is nearly there, except it’s just lost its director. Zoe Saldana will be Nina Simone at some point later this year. Even Tupac might finally happen.
So who hasn’t yet had their rise to fame committed to film?
Surprisingly, there are still a few biggies. N.B. Some of these have been the subject of TV movies, but TV movies don’t count as proper biopics, unless they’re from the post-Sopranos ‘proper telly’ era, because everybody knows that TV movies made before 2000 only exist so they can one day be used for humiliating ‘before they were famous’ clips when someone in them becomes a movie star.