Hardcore fans of The Clash might not like the sound of this: there’s a potential biopic of the band in the works. The good news is that it takes a punk attitude to make a faithful biopic of a punk band and its Christine Vachon’s Killer Films who are brewing up a biopic of some kind. With Todd Haynes currently working on his first television project Mildred Pierce (he’d be my go to director for anything related to music) I wonder which director Vachon has in mind for the project? Michael Winterbottom? Anton Corbijn?
In the mean time, we can play the guessing game of who might play The Clashes’ Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Nicky Headon – I’m thinking that casting will be heavy on British talent and that Ben Whishaw could take a stab at playing Sex Pistols’ Johnny Rotten. For more updates, I suggest checking out Christine Vachon’s twitter feed.
