Weird will be produced by Funny or Die and Tango, and Yankovic co-wrote the script alongside director Eric Appel. The first look follows Radcliffe’s Weird Al pulling out an accordion onstage and strutting around to the classic Madonna parody “Like a Surgeon.” The clip teases “the true untold story” of the now-62-year-old musician, who has been crafting iconic parody tracks for decades, and ends with the character promising he’s “full of surprises.” The trailer for the Daniel Radcliffe-starring biopic Weird: The Al Yankovic Story dropped on Tuesday, featuring the Harry Potter alum decked out in the parody master’s signature ’80s curly hair, mustache, and Hawaiian shirts. Things are about to get weird on the Roku Channel. Look for more with Shawn Levy on Free Guy next week.Daniel Radcliffe Stars in First Trailer for Weird Al Yankovic Biopic The fact that so many of the projects we developed are finding their way to screens, and that we're spreading it around different streamers, different studios, I like that it's worked out that way.” So, the years that we spent developing material at 21 Laps and Fox, I will say this, it's been gratifying, even though our studio got swallowed up by bigger studio. Crater, which is kind of Stand By Me on the moon, that's in production right now. Some have ended up at Disney+, Crater is an example. It was one of the movies that we developed during my 15 years at Fox. We are trying to put it together as a movie. We have a really good script by the creators of the original off-Broadway and Broadway show. Hasn't been movement on that, and unlikely for there to be at least in the foreseeable future. Regarding Be More Chill, which is a movie adaptation of the Broadway show being produced by Levy’s 21 Laps and Greg Berlanti’s Berlanti Productions, Levy said they have a script and they’re trying to get it made. Steel Heart was the first leg of a three-book trilogy by Brandon Sanderson and according to Levy, it’s not happening. But right now that script doesn’t exist.įinally, I asked Levy about the status of Steelheart and Be More Chill. As Levy said, if they can get a script that is worth making, he’d make it. And the biggest issue a project has to overcome is getting a script everyone likes. That’s why you sometimes hear of big-name directors attaching themselves to multiple projects, because no one actually knows when something will all coalesce to get a green light. Levy touches on something some of you may not know, which is that even though people may announce a project, a lot has to happen before it actually gets made. And thus far in the script development of Starman, we haven't gotten to a draft that feels worthy of remaking that title.” The upshot is that I'm not going to touch that phenomenal movie, unless I feel I have something new to say or a new way to say. “Starman? You could say it's far horizon, or you could say unlikely. Here’s his response when I asked about the status of Starman: While many fans were left scratching their heads as to why anyone would want to remake the movie, Levy told me he has no interest in doing it unless they have a script that has something new to say. RELATED: Will 'Stranger Things 5' Be the Final Season? EP Shawn Levy Says "We Have the End in Sight"Ī few years ago, we reported Levy was attached to direct the remake of John Carpenter's 1984 sci-fi classic Starman, which starred Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen.
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