Shailene Woodley to play Janis Joplin in new biopic – WEIS

Shailene Woodley is about to star as rocker Janis Joplin in a brand new biopic funded by the California Movie Fee’s Movie and Tv Tax Credit score Program. The movie is considered one of 15 unbiased tasks to obtain funding from the fee.

“California meant a lot to Janis Joplin – from the stoops of San Francisco to the picket partitions of Sundown Sound, the state turned the stage upon which she explored not simply the world of music, however the world of her vibrant humanity,” Woodley, who can be producing the movie, shares. “I’ve a sense Janis could be smiling ear to ear zipping down the PCH in her psychedelic Porsche understanding her story is bringing alternatives and funding to the town and folks that held a lot significance to her.” 

Woodley provides that she and the opposite producers on the challenge consider “California is the one place to movie a slice of Janis’s life with authenticity and reality – and we’re so grateful to have acquired the inexperienced gentle to take action!”

This isn’t the primary try at making a Janis Joplin biopic. Actually, again in Might The Hollywood Reporter ran a chunk in regards to the many failed makes an attempt at making one. Amongst those that have been at one time connected to play Joplin on display screen have been Amy Adams, Melissa Etheridge, Brittany Murphy, Renée Zellweger, Zooey Deschanel and Pink.

Joplin gained fame as one of the vital electrifying performers of her period, because of appearances on the Monterey Pop Pageant as lead singer of Huge Brother and the Holding Firm and later as a solo artist at Woodstock. She died Oct. 4, 1970, on the age of 27. On the time she was recording her second solo album, Pearl, which was launched after her loss of life and spent 9 weeks at #1.

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