RAMONES Biopic In The Works
October 1, 2009, 15 years ago
Steven Zeitchik and Matthew Belloni from The Hollywood Reporter have issued the following:
Fox Searchlight wants to be sedated.
The specialty division is in negotiations to board a project about the life of the RAMONES, based on the upcoming memoir I Slept With Joey Ramone, by the musician's brother, and featuring the band's tunes.
The project, which initially had been conceived independently under manager-producer Rory Rosegarten, would get a significant boost with the involvement of the 20th Century Fox unit.
Written by Joey Ramone's brother Mickey Leigh and longtime punk writer and Ramones chronicler Legs McNeil, it centers on the life of Joey Ramone, aka Jeffrey Hyman, the lead singer of the seminal punk act. The memoir is scheduled to be published by Simon & Schuster imprint Fireside in December.
Rosegarten is a former executive producer of Everybody Loves Raymond who negotiated several years ago to buy the rights to the book as it was being written and, most critical, the rights to the music. The studio negotiation process has been a complicated one because of the multiple rights involved. The deal with Fox Searchlight is not closed, caution people close to the situation.
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