Andre 3000 to play Jimi Hendrix

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

otm

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

― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Wednesday, July 4, 2012 6:37 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

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

yeah it's very entertaining

totally

yeah, it's the showgirls of musician biopics

val kilmer's depiction of jim morrison's fat and bearded final days was vv convincing

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3xs6uVNkj1qcq0mho1_500.jpg

Andy Serkis-as-Ian Dury

!!!

when was this

Maybe 3 years ago?

Isn't Andre Benjamin like 40 now? How can he play someone who's 15 years younger than him?

I will go see this in theaters, just to relish in the absolute fail of it all. Oh, I can't wait.

Andy Serkis-as-Ian Dury

See, I really enjoyed the film, but I never really got convinced that AS was ID, not really. People say he did a really good job, and I would agree, but Dury was so much a one-off that I don't think it could have been done. Also, the film was more about Baxter really, which I entirely approve of..

well that was kinda my point -- i wasn't familiar enough with Dury to be bothered by that

Isn't Andre Benjamin like 40 now? How can he play someone who's 15 years younger than him?

― Tuomas, Thursday, July 5, 2012 2:29 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting

i'd be WAY more worried about his voice than his face

Well, for how many years was the running story "Phil Lynott to play Hendrix in biopic" ?

lil b

Acting can't make you look physically younger though.

they're gonna cgi his face like Stewart and McKellen in X-Men 3

Acting can't make you look physically younger though.

― Tuomas, Thursday, July 5, 2012 11:17 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmetics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinematography

i kinda think acting can make you look physically younger

yes that too

put em all together and u got the magc of the movies

I'm confused by the article...

"All Along The Watchtower" is used in like 9000 other movies and was not written by Jimi Hendrix, so would they be able to use that? Or what about "Hey Joe?"

yeah i was wondering the same thing. maybe the movie totally ends pre-stardom, though?

i feel like tuomas is trying to force someone to say "black don't crack"