See, I think the subject has to be famous *already*... and too short a period. That's just Based On A True Story.
>Purple Rain
No, fictionalized self-mythology is disqualified.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― joseph (joseph), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 01:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Wait a minute. You're telling me that Malcolm X feels fraudulent?!
― Eric von H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 02:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 12:17 (eighteen years ago) link
Bette Midler, pushing 70, to play Mae West in her 30s and 40s under the direction of William Friedkin:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/william-friedkin-to-direct-bette-midler-to-star-in-mae-west-biopic-for-hbo-films-20131210
The age doesn't bother me as much as that it's fucking Bette Midler.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 20:31 (ten years ago) link
Oh this will be good.
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 00:05 (ten years ago) link
this is a p good, relevant column
These sorts of movies are popular for the same reason that fat tomes of historical fiction by the likes of James Clavell, James A. Michener, and Leon Uris used to be the only fiction that you’d find in houses otherwise devoid of books: there is a significant segment of the American public that thinks this business of making characters and stories up out of thin air is a little suspicious and possibly effeminate. Backers gravitate towards True Story film properties because, like superhero movies, franchise reboots, and genre work, they utilize recognizable icons and known quantities—though, unlike all of those examples, true-life stories of famous people triumphing over honest-to-God hardships are widely and erroneously considered to belong to a higher category of morally improving works...
http://filmcomment.com/entry/bombast-the-black-list
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 January 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, like I think I said on the other thread, biopics let their subjects' obvious prominence do all the heavy lifting.
― Eric H., Friday, 9 January 2015 15:36 (nine years ago) link
Heavy, masculine, non-effeminate lifting.
Hawking biopic excepted, obvs.
Chadwick Boseman cast as Thurgood Marshall, en route to playing Every Famous Black Man Ever
http://jezebel.com/why-does-hollywood-keep-casting-chadwick-boseman-in-bio-1748584019
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 January 2016 11:17 (eight years ago) link
http://variety.com/2018/film/news/flamin-hot-cheetos-movie-devon-franklin-fox-searchlight-1202707879/
― johnny crunch, Friday, 23 February 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link
Nico 1988 - possibly the best film that is also a rock biopic that I've seen. Recommend highly.
― everything, Monday, 27 August 2018 22:52 (five years ago) link
Here we go:
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/universal-rock-hudson-biopic-all-that-heaven-allows-1203155807/
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 18:23 (five years ago) link
I guess it's only fair after Ray Kroc that the Flamin' Hot Cheetos guy get one
Eva Longoria To Direct Cheetos Movie ‘Flamin’ Hot’ For Fox Searchlight & Franklin Entertainment https://t.co/iDu0VGpCdj pic.twitter.com/GpPJhj02br— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) August 27, 2019
(I have never heard of Flamin' Hot Cheetos before today)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link
Let's go with these musical biopics.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 October 2021 02:15 (two years ago) link
https://variety.com/lists/greatest-rock-music-biopics/control-2/
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 June 2022 21:01 (one year ago) link