Andre 3000 to play Jimi Hendrix

Apparently Dre's English accent is pretty shit - he tried it in that interview in the last issue of Muzik.

OTM OTM OTM!!

Is everyone being sarcastic or do most of y'all really hate Hughes bros. movies? As far associal commentaryism goes I would say 'meh', but as far as tales-designed-for-emotional-manipulation-of-the-audience, they're top fucking notch.

"Turn my wah-wah up!"

The girl thing in it was pretty bad, but otherwise, a real pretty hoot. I like the idea of them doing, um, making a Hendrix biopic.

Will Trower dub the live show sequences?

if they're gonna do a black acid rock biopic the better choice (and the better story) would be Sly.

They can't do that one until he turns up dead.

No Hendrix music in Hendrix biopic

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/andre-3000-covers-beatles-muddy-waters-songs-for-jimi-hendrix-biopic-20120703

great idea

Janie Hendrix is taking a lot of shit in the comments there, but am I right in thinking that his estate was a shambles before she took over? Also, it looks like the filmmakers never had any intention (or at least not enough intention to bother asking) of using any original Hendrix-written material.

ya right

Actually, I'd be in favor of more music biopics framing themselves as "how they got there" pieces rather than dramatizations of the super famous years. Hendrix did a lot of session work and scraping by before Are You Experienced? that I'm not at all familiar with.

most good biopics are about a very limited period in the subject's life i find. cradle to grave ones always suck

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Hendrix's most iconic visual performances were of non-originals by Chip Taylor and Francis Scott Key anyways

and my favourite Hendrix track was written by Bob Dylan

and I'm not talking about Drifter's Escape although that's pretty good too

this is Last Days for Hendrix fans

most good biopics are about a very limited period in the subject's life i find. cradle to grave ones always suck

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this is very true, although at this point i feel pretty scorched earth about biopics in general and especially music biopics and ESPECIALLY ones that are an ego trip star vehicle for a musician-turned-actor. so basically still feel the same way i did upthread 8 years ago, fuck this shit, i hope it's a catastrophe, fuck andre, hendrix 4ever etc.

yes agree on all that. they're not always good when they do that. they're usually, as a rule, bad!

i think the last one i didn't venomously hate was the Andy Serkis-as-Ian Dury one, which i think got a lot of help from me not having too much familiarity with the subject to get hung up on accuracy/resemblance/etc.

not really a biopic if its not comprehensive, more of a memopic

the only music one that i can remember liking is 24 party ppl and it doesnt even really belong in the category

a non-music one i really like is ed wood

man who fell to earth is p good

stuck too much to the facts, u need to take creative liberties to tell a good story

fair

the man who sold the world on the other hand, great bio-song

that's true, but i think a bigger issue with this for me is when you make a movie about a TV age celebrity/public figure, the viewer knows exactly what the real person looks/sounds/acts like and it becomes such a preoccupation or requirement. i mean i don't think The Doors is a very good movie but i'm pretty impressed with it just on the level of how uncanny Val Kilmer is as Morrison. (xpost)

the doors is such an amazing funny movie

lollllll

What does that even mean?

black people age nicer... they dont get white people wrinkles and stuff

finn don't wrinkle-skin

lol

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/arts/music/andre-3000-is-moving-on-in-film-music-and-life.html?emc=edit_th_20140831&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=37355772