A five-time Grammy winner, Yankovic is the best-selling comedy recording artist of all time and is known for copying and parodying the works of his musical contemporaries.
“Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe is set to play “Weird Al” Yankovic in the musician’s biopic, which will be a Roku Original project.
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The film from production banner Funny or Die & Tango will be available for streaming exclusively on The Roku Channel, reported time limit.
A five-time Grammy winner, Yankovic is the best-selling comedy recording artist of all time and is known for copying and parodying the works of his musical contemporaries.
According to the makers, the biopic will be a no-holds-barred account of Yankovic’s life, from his childhood to his meteoric rise to fame with early hits like “Eat It” and “Like a Surgeon”, even on his rampant celebrity. will touch. Love affair and famous corrupt lifestyle.
After directing a short film of the same name for Funny or Die in 2010, Yankovic and Eric Appel wrote the feature, which the latter would direct.
Appel, best known for directing series including “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and “New Girl”, said that one day Werd Al sat down to him and told him his incredible life story, which he knew was waiting to be made into a movie. Was being
Yankovic, who also serves as a producer, said he is thrilled that Radcliffe will portray him in the film, which will “be a role for which generations to come will remember him”.
He continued, “When my last film came out in UHF 1989, I made a solemn pledge to my fans that I would release a major movie like clockwork every 33 years. I am very happy to say that. That we are on time.” Roku’s head of original scripted programming, Colin Davis, said the streamer is excited to shed light on the “incredibly true, exaggerated story of Weird Al.”
“I am excited that my first project as the owner of Funny Or Die Studios is to help bring the story of Werd Al’ Yankovic to the screen.
“Weird Al is a comic genius and his influence on pop culture, his mastery of music videos, his award-winning music and his incredible life is a perfect fit for the talented producers at FOD,” said Henri Munoz III, who served as He is the President and Executive Producer of Funny Or Die.
Mike Farah, Joe Farrell and Whitney Hodack are producing the film for Funny Or Die, and Tim Headington, Lia Bauman and Max Silva for Tango. Apple is executive producer with Munoz III and Neil Shah of Tango.
Production will begin in Los Angeles early next month.
Radcliffe, who recently appeared in the HBO Max special “Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts”, will next be seen playing an antagonist in the action-adventure comedy film “The Lost City”.
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