Rolling Stones biopic, Would it be very interesting?

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Compared to Ray or I Walk The Line? Or even the Buddy Holly Story? How would it stack up?

― FreighTrainMan, Monday, 26 February 2007 02:30 (nineteen years ago)

I don't see a lot of potential there, other than perhaps opening with the Mars bar, then composing "We Love You" In jail, then Brian floating intercut with Altamont.

― bendy, Monday, 26 February 2007 02:39 (nineteen years ago)

"We're young and hip and what we do is shocking to the masses!"

"We're old and unhip and we're now considered tame!"

*Mars Bar/Brian Jones montage*

― Cunga, Monday, 26 February 2007 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

It wouldn't be very good

― Tom D., Monday, 26 February 2007 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

Who's playing who?

― StanM, Monday, 26 February 2007 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ashley Walters as Mick Jagger
Jimmy Carr as Keith Richards
Rhys Ifans as Brian Jones
Timothy Spall as Bill Wyman
Roger Lloyd Pack as Charlie Watts
Les Dennis as Andrew Loog Oldham
Helen Mirren as Marianne Faithfull

― Tom D., Monday, 26 February 2007 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

In that case:

It wouldn't be very good

not OTM.

― StanM, Monday, 26 February 2007 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

Was there a thread on this board that one insisted a RS biopic would only have 3 good scenes in it--or something like that? Or was I dreaming that? I thought I remembered something about a scene with Mick Jagger getting caught in bed with David Bowie.

― FreighTrainMan, Monday, 26 February 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

maybe a year in the life centering on the events of 68-69, from marriane rolled up in a rug to brian's death and ending with the hyde park concert. maybe.

a biopic on their whole career would be fucking excruciating.

― m coleman, Monday, 26 February 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, do it like "the Queen"...

where they make "satanic majesties", everyone boos, things go wrong, up to making "Exile" and everyone loves them again...

― Mark G, Monday, 26 February 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

I can't help but think that everything would get whitewashed as soon as the band themselves demanded to be "creative consultants".

― Tantrum The Cat, Monday, 26 February 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Well Altamont could make for a very good scene. And you'd have to have a scene in there where Angela Bowie walks in on David and Mick sucking each other off in bed, then turn around and makes them scramled eggs as they finish up. And then ofcourse a scene where Keith falls out of a coconut tree and also the obligatory Brian Jones death scene...So there's at least 4 good scenes the movie would have.

― FreighTrainMan, Monday, 26 February 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

as long as you've got christiane amanpour starring jagger, you should be ok.

― fact checking cuz, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

starrring AS jagger, that is

― fact checking cuz, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

Jim Carrey as Mick Jagger
Ben Stiller as Keith Richards
Owen Wilson as Brian Jones
Luke Wilson as Charlie Watts
Jack Black as Bill Wyman
Robin Williams as Andrew Loog-Oldham
Lindsay Lohan as Marianne Faithfull
Jamie Foxx as Meredith Hunter

Directed by Steven Spielberg

OST by The Decemberists

― henry s, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

isn't the lady who's supposed to be a brilliant actress/comic genius character on Studio 60 starring in a Rolling Stones biopic?

― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

also if such a movie was ever done, they couldn't follow the lone genius format of Ray or Walk The Line, partly because it's about a whole band full of different people, but mostly because can you really see Mick or even Keith being portrayed that way? I almost want to say they're too goofy to be given that kind of reverent treatment. I think the most you could hope for is something like Almost Famous but about actual 70s rock stars instead of fictitious stand-ins. and that's not a whole lot to hope for!

― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Her character is playing Anita Pallenberg (sp).

― musically, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

have you all forgotten:

http://www.discshop.se/shop/img/omslag/front_large/7/57097.jpg

?

― sonderangerbot, Monday, 26 February 2007 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm working on it

― sexyDancer, Monday, 26 February 2007 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

too goofy to be given that kind of reverent treatment.

As I've thought about this, the problem with the Stones is that they've never really struggled with anything. Jagger's career starts with leaving the London School of Economics. They could handle the drugs. The darkest events didn't derail them. They were never forgotten, nor did they ever radically reinvent themselves. And if the dramatic approach won't work, you can't do a parody either, 'cause they've got that covered. (And not just late period Stones... letting go of Ian Stewart for not being photogenic....)

― bendy, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

Not a biopic, but Jagger is teaming up with Martin Scorsese for his next movie.

― musically, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

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