JOAN JETT Says THE RUNAWAYS Film Is "Absolutely Not A Biopic"
August 25, 2009, 15 years ago
Gary Graff Billboard.com is reporting:
JOAN JETT and her creative and business partner Kenny Laguna are expressing optimism for THE RUNAWAYS, the film based on the maligned but influential all-female rock band that Jett co-founded and led from 1975-79.
The film, which is partly based on Runaways singer Cherie Currie's 1989 memoir Neon Angel, features Twilight star Kristen Stewart as Jett, Dakota Fanning as Currie and Michael Shannon as original producer Kim Fowley. It was directed by Floria Sigismondi and is currently in post-production, with a release planned for 2010.
"It was very surreal and hard to put a word on," Jett, who executive produced the film and was on hand for the filming, tells Billboard.com. "If anything it definitely made me smile. It reinforces my love for the band and the fact I think it was an extremely important band, regardless of our level of success in America. It just reinforces my love of the whole time and of the band and what we did and how it was implausible and improbable at the same time."And Jett hastens to explain that The Runaways is "absolutely not a biopic. It's not fact-for-fact. What they did was basically take elements from the Runaways story and created a parallel narrative."
Laguna adds that, "We're hoping it will be great. They exceeded our expectations with the casting...Even if it's not a huge movie, it's going to have a colossal effect on young girls playing rock 'n' roll, for sure."
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