Home /News
This is cinema Clash: Strummer biopic on the way
Posted: 15 Mar '07, 16:43
Joe Strummer is set to get the full dead rock icon treatment this Summer, as he becomes the subject of his own biopic.
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten is being directed by Julien Temple - director of The Great Rock n' Roll Swindle - and will feature unseen footage of the great man; on location in the studio and at home as a child.
Martin Scorsese, Mick Jones and Bono are among the interviewees who appear in the documentary, while old audio clips from Strummer himself will be used to add narrative to the film.
A soundtrack will be made available prior to the film's release at UK cinemas on the 18th of May, the CD including unreleased cuts from The Clash as well as the work of other bands The 101ers and The Mescaleros.
-
Looking forward to this
A colleague of mine saw a screening and said it was excellent.
-
good to see Temple involved
means itll be worth a look
-
I hope Antony Genn of The Hours is in this documentary
That guy is awesome and the reason that The Mescaleros formed.
-
Yeah, but...
Bono and Martin Scorsese!? I would quite happily go along at gob at them in old fashioned punk style if they held a fancy Leicester Square premiere.
Which they won't.
-
Really???
That I did not know. The guy is funny but so far up his own arse it's cringe-worthy. Plus The Hours are cack!
-
-
-
-
Did anyone read
in the Grauniad that (in another music bio-pic in pre-production) Frodo was going to play Iggy Pop?
-
Poor Julien Temple,
doomed to always be "Great Rock N Roll Swindle director Julien Temple". If it's any consolation, he'll always be "The Filth And The Fury director Julien Temple" to me.
-
Bono, meanwhile,
can fuck off and die. Have you seen the New Order video where he starts singing 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' like a massive, massive cunt? If he does the same with 'Clash City Rockers' in this I will hunt him down and stab him in the face.
-
Blah blah blah blah blah
As soon as Bono is mentioned, you nobheads start having a go............
-
Bono's appearance...
.... on docs like this is as predictable as the Big Ben chimes. The number of significant artists by whom he has claimed to have been "hugely influenced" in that uniquely annoying faux-sincere manner of his must be pushing 1000. The trouble is, it's never about the artists in question, it's about Bono wanting the world to see how cool and connected he is. Bono is a pub rocker who got very, very lucky, thriving as as the overhyped, acceptable face of 'alternative' big-business rock in the otherwise vacuous, amoral, grabby, artistically-bankrupt world of the 80s. He's a superficial, pompous, patronising poseur. He's the not-very-talented-or-creative one in a band whose other members are not especially talented or creative themselves, but at least don't seem to need the attention quite as much. He's a cock who has never had an original artistic idea in his life, but seems to think that he holds the key to all of life's mysteries, and will save us all if only we will let him. That's why 'nobheads' start having a go as soon as he is mentioned. If you don't believe me then have another look at the Band Aid video - that 'pained and sincere' expression could have been resolved for him in seconds with a hearty dose of ex-lax to remove the festering dollop of self-importance clogging up his insides. His view on Strummer or anyone else is of no relevance whatsoever. And I earn £32k pa - when Bono is down to his last million, and has given the rest away to good causes, then, and only then, do I want to hear his views on how I should spend my money to save the world. Apart from that I don't really have an opinion on him
-
Yes, Terra,
that's because I hate him and want him to die.
-
Thing is though
nobody actually comes up with anything constructive about Bono and U2....it's all about the slagging off for the sake of it.
-
My hatred goes
beyond mere words.
-
-
U2 do suck though
And Bono is universally loathed as a sanctimonious little twat. He should stick to flogging strawberry flavoured limited edition iPods.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
God bless this man
This is clearly going to be brilliant.
-
I will defintiely go watch this
but I'm not gonna set my hopes too high, because I really hate these Dreamgirls style biopics, but with Julien Temple on board, I should be safe. It would be a huge hypocrisy if they had a grand Leicster Square opening though, hopefully someone realises before its too late. As for Bono, its naueseating every time he's in some biography faking his adoration for a band, him being cut fromt he movie would improve it greatly.
-
-
Bashing Bono is too easy
Wow, I really respect the passion and articulacy that is on display in some of these anti-Bono rants but is it worth the energy? Perhaps he's full of shit but I was 17 in 1977 and the truth is that it's difficult to imagine just how post-punk bands like U2 could have existed without The Clash. I mean, who were they supposed to model themselves on, Pink Floyd? Genesis? Led Zeppelin? All Bono is doing is paying tribute. In 1977 you either went (i) punk or (ii) big hair, it was that simple. U2 built on Strummer's legacy of social commitment and emotional directness and he'd be the last person to condemn Bono for having made a shitload more moneey than he did in the process. In fact he respected U2 and said that his band would have been U2 if they could have held it together and reconciled themselves to the music business. At no point did he ever condemn U2 in the way he ripped into The Police. So I say give the Irishman a break; Joe did.
-
"Bashing Bono"
lol
-
"Sorry I'm late,
I was bashing the Bono." :-D
-
-
Comments
- Post a new comment on this article