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Daniel Johnston biopic in the works
Some pertinent breaking news just knocked. We answered. On the doorstep: adored Austin musician/artist Daniel Johnston. The special delivery he carries goes like this:
The makers of the inventive, award-winning teen dramedy “My Suicide,” enjoying its U.S. premiere Sunday at SXSW film, have snagged the rights to what they call “one of the most sought-after stories of the new century: the life story of manic-depressive genius singer-songwriter-artist Daniel Johnston.”
We take this message and ponder it. A dramatic feature about Dan “Hi, how are you?” Johnston. Our response is bifurcated: Cool. Then: Crap.
(Who will play him? Jonah Hill? Philip Seymour Hoffman? Oprah? “My Suicide’s” teen lead will play the young Johnston.)
Regenerate Films producers David Lee Miller, Larry Janss and Gabriel Sunday are developing the script.
Johnston, by the by, is playing twice at SXSW Music: 2:45 p.m. March 19 at the Brooklyn Vegan/Paste Magazine party at Radio Room and 1 a.m. March 21 at Emo’s.
For “My Suicide” show times at SXSW Film, go HERE.
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By Molly
March 12, 2009 10:29 PM | Link to this
BIOPIC! Ha!
It would be great if Daniel himself were funded to make his own autobiographical film. Now that I’d be interested in, but a biopic? Certainly NOT.
By Jeff Tartakov
March 12, 2009 12:21 PM | Link to this
In the words of Nancy Kerrigan, “Whyyyyyyy?”!