Originally published at: Daniel Radcliffe is amazing in the teaser trailer for "Weird: The Al Yankovic Story" | Boing Boing
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That was weird.
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Radcliffe has the look nailed, I just wonder about the height differences.
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Something tells me this is not going to be one of those biopics that is overly concerned with historical accuracy.
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Right. I think the notion that it’s a Weird Al movie assumes a certainly disconnection from reality. I think one played absolutely straight would miss the heart of what Weird Al is about. Accuracy and Truth have a lot of overlap, but they’re not the same thing.
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Yeah - I’m guessing it will be more in a Rocketman or I’m Not There vein where accuracy be damned.
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I guess there’s not a lot of drama or shocking revelations to be found in “accordion prodigy and all around nice person finds improbable success doing wholesome comedy songs”.
Act 2 would just involve that time Coolio got mad at him if that was the case making Act 3 pretty limp (Coolio forgives him).
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It’s no weirder than Johnny Depp playing Hunter Thompson. Or even Daniel Radcliffe and John Hamm playing the same character.
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Most importantly, who will play Dr. Demento?
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From the trailer it looks like Rainn Wilson. I’m sure he’ll do fine. I think that Patton Oswalt would make a superior choice there. (a la the Funny or Die video posted below: Daniel Radcliffe is amazing in the teaser trailer for "Weird: The Al Yankovic Story" - #14 by Otherbrother)
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I think it would be hilarious if Dr. Demento was played by a different comedic actor in every shot but nobody called attention to the fact. It would be easy to make work because you could just slap a beard and a top hat on whichever actor was playing him in a given scene.
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The total lack of drama almost makes me hope they steer hard into the surreal. I’d settle for an unofficial sequel to Walk Hard, though I’m really hoping it’s a stealth sequel for UHF.
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The peak geek moment of my life was the year Dr. Demento DJed the Chicago Worldcon (Chicon). It was wonderfully awkward.
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So in that sense, is this parody trailer from 9 years ago the real Weird Al biopic movie??
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This to me is like Star Wars trailers, glad it’s out there but you had me at Weird Al and Radcliffe. No spoilers here even if @Papasan calls it ‘weird’ (was that a pun or was it weird or both?!?!? we’ll never know!).
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Love that the actual Al was in this as the A&R guy.
Missed opportunity in the news chyron: “Weird Al–Coholic”. Needs more em-dash.
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“Accordians will be cool, again.”
Was there ever a time when accordians were Not cool?
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They’re explicitly “adapting” that sketch. Because Weird Al thought it was funny.
The guy who wrote and directed it is directing the film.
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Right, I just found that in this article. And my mistake, it was from 12 years ago, not 9.
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