At the same that the Linson name was taking off in the movie producing business, the band going by the name of The Runaways was perhaps coming in for a treterous landing. Almost three decades later the father and son producer team (Art and John Linson) have picked up the life story rights to those involved and will smack viewers back into the rock n roll world that includes the two other requisites: sex and drugs.
Variety reports that video director Canadian/Italian Floria Sigismondi will make her directorial debut on the project – she has directed videos for David Bowie, the White Stripes and Marilyn Manson. Check in our quick links section for her official website.
Taken from a title of one of their tracks, Neon Angels is about the '70s teenage band the Runaways (Joan Jett, Cherie Currie and the late Sandy West) and tells about how they were brought together by Kim Fowley, who created a band that would set the stage for girl groups like the Go-Go's and the Bangles. The film will use an unpublished memoir written by lead singer Curie will be used as a resource for a drama that intends to bare all the drugs, sex and heartache experienced by girls who struggled to be viewed as musicians, not sex kittens with guitars.
The Linsons secured music rights and deals that allow them to tell the stories of members Joan Jett, Cherie Currie and the late Sandy West. The project will be financed independently . Jett will be exec producer, along with her longtime manager-producer Kenny Laguna and Brian Young.
Now the next question remains: who do you cast in the film? Name actors or unknowns?
