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Stormzy's film company to co-produce Ian Wright biopic

The film will explore the early life of the ex-footballer and former Match of The Day pundit.

www.bbc.co.uk

Hmm.... I'm a bit brutal when it comes to biopics - it needs an extraordinary life, or a person/persons at the centre of fascinating events.
I love Wrighty but a film about his life? It might be fine but I watched the Roxanne Shante bio on Netflix a few weeks ago - great rapper, important in the history of hip hop, but her life, while a very human story of some challenge and some succes, just wasn't very interesting as the subject of an entire film.

 

[Goodison87]

Looking forward to this one next week. Disclosure Day / Spielberg.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Hmm.... I'm a bit brutal when it comes to biopics - it needs an extraordinary life, or a person/persons at the centre of fascinating events.
I love Wrighty but a film about his life? It might be fine but I watched the Roxanne Shante bio on Netflix a few weeks ago - great rapper, important in the history of hip hop, but her life, while a very human story of some challenge and some succes, just wasn't very interesting as the subject of an entire film.

I'm getting annoyed with biopics as well, not least that we used to wait for the person to be dead before we went glossing over history.
Orson Welles would be a good one, although he was still alive for it I 'finding jack charlton' cut me like a knife, and now having checked 'finding jack' I've found a film in production about vietnam that is cgi'ing james dean into a supporting role as no living actor fits the bill as well.
But yes, incredible lives get the big deal, renegades, maniacs, the incredible lucky, I wonder if Wrighty's story will touch on his being a plasterer, or his foibles parroting the headlock-hoax, or his cousin that got him into trouble so regular.