Cease us if you’ve heard this one earlier than: A brand new Janis Joplin biopic is within the works. And this time it’s Shailene Woodley who’s connected to play the legendary singer and musician.
The mission was revealed — oddly sufficient — in a press launch issued by the California Movie Fee asserting which motion pictures and TV exhibits would obtain its coveted tax credit. As such, the small print are fairly scant. Woodley is ready to star and produce, and the manufacturing firm backing the movie is Temple Hill Leisure, which has completed the Twilight motion pictures, First Man, Smile, and extra.
However there’s quite a bit we don’t know in the intervening time, together with, arguably, essentially the most essential factor: Whether or not the Joplin property is concerned within the movie, has sanctioned it, or will let the film use Joplin’s music. Rolling Stone has reached out to the property and Temple Hill for additional particulars.
Even Woodley’s assertion on the biopic appeared extra about California than the precise film: “California meant a lot to Janis Joplin — from the stoops of San Francisco to the wood partitions of Sundown Sound, the state grew to become the stage upon which she explored not simply the world of music, however the world of her vibrant humanity,” she stated. “Being a Los Angeles native myself, and having grown up working alongside business locals, figuring out our movie can be created with a few of the most gifted, passionate, and devotional folks leaves me giddy. I’ve a sense Janis can be smiling ear to ear zipping down the PCH in her psychedelic Porsche figuring out her story is bringing alternatives and funding to the town and those who held a lot significance to her.”
Famously, the 1979 movie The Rose started as a Joplin biopic referred to as Pearl, nevertheless it was reconfigured after the Joplin household declined to grant the mission the rights to the late musician’s story. For what it’s price, The Rose in all probability represents the most effective case state of affairs for such a state of affairs, with the movie incomes 4 Oscar nominations, together with Greatest Actress for Bette Midler in her first film position. For a attainable worst case, always remember 30 Rock’s legendary “Jackie Jormp-Jomp” bit.
Within the a long time since The Rose, there have been quite a few makes an attempt at making a correct Joplin biopic, however all have fallen by means of. Woodley now joins a moderately stacked checklist of actresses and musicians who’ve been slated, at one time or one other, to play the Queen of Rock & Roll, together with Amy Adams, Renée Zellweger, Zooey Deschanel, Brittany Murphy, Pink, Melissa Etheridge, and Nina Arianda.