« A Dish Best Served Cold | Main | Tony Randall, 1920-2004 »
Moby does Ian, or: Moby Division
As reported in Variety, eclectic geeky vegan techno musician Moby is going to produce a biopic of Ian Curtis, the chronically depressed and dead lead singer of Joy Division. Moby will be the film's executive producer, and will work on "shaping the film's musical elements."
Filmbrain thinks this could be a good film, but a comment by co-producer Neil Weisman gave him some pause:
"I see this film as a kind of rock 'n' roll Shine."
Oh dear. Maybe they can get Geoffrey Rush to play Ian.
The news that really caught Filmbrain's eye is that they are still searching for a screenwriter for the project. Well look no further Mr. Moby -- Filmbrain wants the job. As someone who was making-out with his punk-rock girlfriend in 1980 to She's Lost Control, he is more than qualified for the job. He'll even give the project a more uplifting ending (just like Shine). Ian, just about to take his life, is talked out of it by a young Morrissey. Then the two go off and form The Smiths. Sure, it's revisionist, but Oscar™ loves happy movies!
May 18, 2004 in Film | Permalink
TrackBack
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d8345163ca69e200e55078620a8834
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Moby does Ian, or: Moby Division:
» The Dead Hate the Living from hyperkinetic | nothing so loud
Everyone's favorite faux-DJ asshole (Moby) is producing an upcoming biopic about the life and death of Ian Curtis. I think this is a monumentally bad idea, not least of all because Moby is a hack and he plans on "shaping... [Read More]
Tracked on May 18, 2004 1:04:43 PM
» Hollywood will tear us apart from Hot Buttered Death
Moby does Ian, or: Moby Division As reported in Variety, eclectic geeky vegan techno musician Moby is going to produce a biopic of Ian Curtis, the chronically depressed and dead lead singer of Joy Division. Moby will be the film's... [Read More]
Tracked on May 19, 2004 2:45:56 AM
» A Means To An End from cinema addict
Suddenly there seems to be a surge of interest in Joy Division's frontman, Ian Curtis. A few days ago Filmbrain wrote about a supposed biopic on Ian Curtis with Moby acting as the film's executive producer (could you imagine [Read More]
Tracked on May 22, 2004 5:59:55 PM
Comments
You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.
Oh hell no. H-E-L-L N-O.
I already hated that pompous, self-important (and self-righteous), bald, verbose vegan windbag—but fucking with Ian is going too far. I have a hard time believing that Moby could do Ian's life justice; he couldn't even properly cover a Joy Division song, so I have little hope about this filmmaking skills.
I bet he'll dredge up all those old rumors about Joy Division being a white supremacist band—or worse yet, they'll depict the urban legend version of Ian's suicide: standing on a block of ice with a rope around his neck. *shudder*
Ian's been dead a long time. He should let the guy rest in peace.
Posted by: Marleigh | May 18, 2004 12:56:09 PM
Marleigh --
Your post totally got me out of my dead Tony Randall depression. Thanks.
Verbose vegan windbag....priceless.
Posted by: Filmbrain | May 18, 2004 1:46:02 PM
Michael Winterbottom already did Curtis, and he dealt with the stupid nazi rumor.
Posted by: whump | May 18, 2004 2:26:20 PM
Great film, wasn't it? Steeve Coogan made a great Tony Wilson.
Posted by: Filmbrain | May 18, 2004 3:44:40 PM
Not bad overall, but entirely too much of the Happy Mondays. Not one of my favorite Manchester bands.
I'm sure 24 Hour Party People beats the hell out of whatever pap Moby is going to bring us, though. Who's ready for the gospel remix of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" during an artful montage of Ian's hanging corpse, followed by shots of the weeping widow and child (and mistress) at the funeral? Or the industrial-fusion remix of "Dead Souls" as Ian has an epileptic fit on stage?
Yikes. The only thing worse than imagining the horrors Moby will perpetrate on the catalog of one of my favorite bands is to try and figure out who they'll cast as Ian. This could get much, much worse.
Posted by: Marleigh | May 18, 2004 5:02:35 PM
I've enjoyed all of the Winterbottom movies' I've seen so far. I still need to rent the one from last year that he shot on the sly about the migrants.
But I'm a little scared of this new one.
Posted by: whump | May 18, 2004 6:21:55 PM
The hardcore sex one? Sounds interesting, I think.
Posted by: FIlmbrain | May 18, 2004 9:11:25 PM
I hate Moby
Posted by: Moby sucks | May 17, 2006 11:51:20 PM
