Originally published at: Daniel Radcliffe will play Weird Al Yankovic in new biopic | Boing Boing
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This is both the best and worst idea ever?!
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I feel like this is a Mad Libs headline:
[actor] will star in a new biopic about the life of [celebrity]. It will show on the [television channel].
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Frankly, I am intrigued.
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Same here.
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I’d love to see a Weird Al biopic.
Seeing him interviewed on Nickelodeon as a child was great. Just how casual he was, with a lot less sense of polishing a persona than you usually got.
Plus the life advice that if you want to get a tattoo, at least think about the design for more than a couple days.
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Not sure i’ll ever watch it, but it was already worth it for Al’s quotes about the project.
Maybe i’ll catch his next flick in 2055
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I’m all for a Weird Al biopic, but Al is 6’ 0" and kind of a stringbean – his stature has a lot to do with who Al is. Radcliff is like 5’ 5". But hey, what the hell?
Jeff Bridges as Dr. Demento, perhaps?
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"Daniel Radcliffe will play Weird Al Yankovic in new biopic"
These are words that have meanings that I recognize, but somehow I can’t wrap my head around them as a whole. Possibly this is a good thing.
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It can’t possibly be stranger than Swiss Army Man.
(Can it?)
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They should just have Dr. Demento play himself.
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Aside from the previously mentioned height thing, I can actually picture Radcliffe doing a good job on this. I am now picturing him with Al’s super long curly hair, and the thought is appropriately … weird.
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“When Weird Al first sat me down against my will and told me his life story, I didn’t believe any of it, but I knew that we had to make a movie about it.”
If this is Wierd Al:s own version of his life it could be fun. Kind of like ‘Big Fish’.
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VH1’s Behind the Music about Al is pretty great. Most of their shows are about how messed up, say, Guns & Roses were behind the scenes. Whereas Al’s is so refreshingly wholesome.
“WHEN WE COME BACK: AL’S PAIN.
'And then my third album [sob] didn’t go [sob] double platinum! [sob]
[sob]
[stops sobbing and looks at the camera]
That good? That’ll do it for you?”
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That could create a bit of a funny surreal joke, to have this 80 year old playing his much much younger self and everyone just pretending nothing is amiss.
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Wasn’t that pretty much what they did with a whole bunch of the guest stars on That 70s Show? Alice Cooper played himself, along with many other aging folks who were big in the ‘70s.
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I never knew De Niro was in a Frankenstein remake.
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