Brian Movie Bio Announced.

[rab2591]

Thanks for the link Ed.

I think we can expect this Brian film to be an epic work of art.

[SMiLE Brian]

Thanks for the link Ed.

I think we can expect this Brian film to be an epic work of art.

Pumped for this movie, however Mike Love needs Michael Bay to make a movie about his life as well with explosions and car chases.

[pixletwin]

I really loved Into the Wild and Tree of Life, so if that's the team behind Brian's movie so much the better.

[Alex]

As long as it`s a little more like Walk Hard and less like Walk the Line I`ll be happy.

[Emdeeh]

I'm holding out for the Pixar version.....

 

[bgas]

As long as it`s a little more like Walk Hard and less like Walk the Line I`ll be happy.

which means you'd rather have John Reilly than Joaquin Phoenix?

[Alex]

I could see John C. Reilly as 70s Brian...beard and all! NPH as the Lovester. The lead singer of Iron and Wine could give acting a try and play Carl. Slap a wig on Verne Troyer and you`ve got Al covered. Maybe Joseph Gordon Levitt as Dave Marks. Ryan Reynolds as Dennis. Steve Buscemi as Manson. Stig from the Rutles could play Ricky Fataar. NPH could double or even triple as Stan and Steve Love. Michael Cera with a mustache as VDP. Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd, etc. as the Vosse Posse. Either Pitt or Clooney as Rocky Pamplin. Zooey Deschanel as Diane Rovell. Can`t forget to find someone to play "Tommy Schaefer"!

[Lowbacca]

I could see John C. Reilly as 70s Brian...beard and all! NPH as the Lovester. The lead singer of Iron and Wine could give acting a try and play Carl. Slap a wig on Verne Troyer and you`ve got Al covered. Maybe Joseph Gordon Levitt as Dave Marks. Ryan Reynolds as Dennis. Steve Buscemi as Manson. Stig from the Rutles could play Ricky Fataar. NPH could double or even triple as Stan and Steve Love. Michael Cera with a mustache as VDP. Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd, etc. as the Vosse Posse. Either Pitt or Clooney as Rocky Pamplin. Zooey Deschanel as Diane Rovell. Can`t forget to find someone to play "Tommy Schaefer"!

Haha, the Judd Apatow version of Brian's story.  I'd dig Cera as VDP and Levitt as Marks.

And yes, the Brian scenes in Walk Hard were awesome!

[runnersdialzero]

Jeff Bridges will surely play an old brian.

No plz.

[Alex]

Jeff Bridges will surely play an old brian.

No plz.

I have doubts as to whether His Dudeness can even muster up the acting chops to tackle such an important career-making role. 

[Runaways]

though, if anyone has seen the men who stare at goats, bridges is pretty much playing brian in his last scenes.  more gone though.  but he had that stone blank look down ha.

[Pretty Funky]

The more I think about it the comedy route could be a winner! Brian would enjoy it more.

Think about it? Some of the actors mentioned playing it straight but factual would be a cool bio! 

[rab2591]

Eh, I'd really hate the comedy route. I mean, I listen to The Beach Boys for their stunning cathedral of voices, spirituality, and genius - and I really want that reflected in a movie. I want people leaving the theatre and going straight to the record store to pick up a copy of Pet Sounds. I want people's hearts racing when they hear the outro of 'California Girls' booming from the theatre speakers.

They should make it as graphically real as possible....the music, the drugs, the fame, the loss, the climb back up a shaky ladder.

There should be some comedy, but this should be a movie about the music....not about stoner actors trying to make the movie funny...IMO.

[Pretty Funky]

I undersstand but when you think about it, however it is done its going to be another 'Walk The Line' or 'Ray'.

Now to have a straight faced actor say something like "Chuck....Lets get some horses into the studio!" Now thats going to be gold.

[hypehat]

You can have it both ways - The Beach Boys are funny guys!

It's going to be hard for them to portray the 70's from BW's perspective without making the band seem like massive douches, actually. But then maybe the Brian's Back thing was just a douche manoeuvre.

Or in fact, how they're going to portray the band at all - hopefully the script is good to Mike. The endorsement of Melinda leaves this up in the air.....

Now to have a straight faced actor say something like "Chuck....Lets get some horses into the studio!" Now thats going to be gold.

Needs a similar straight faced dude playing Dennis getting all excited and going 'My horse would look so bitchin' in here' 

[Chocolate Shake Man]

I undersstand but when you think about it, however it is done its going to be another 'Walk The Line' or 'Ray'.

Why? I'm Not There is the anti-Walk The Line and the anti-Ray. That's why it is a much more compelling movie and it's probably also why it didn't get many award noms.

[rab2591]

I undersstand but when you think about it, however it is done its going to be another 'Walk The Line' or 'Ray'.

Why? I'm Not There is the anti-Walk The Line and the anti-Ray. That's why it is a much more compelling movie and it's probably also why it didn't get many award noms.

Agreed. I think this movie will be an artistic statement....there is no reason why it has to be a Clone of Walk the Line or Ray.

Throw comedy in? Why not? But make it about the music, not about the actors.

[theCOD]

Why? I'm Not There is the anti-Walk The Line and the anti-Ray. That's why it is a much more compelling movie and it's probably also why it didn't get many award noms.

Agreed. I think this movie will be an artistic statement....

The only statement I could glean from I'm Not There is "I want Dylan's balls in my mouth," so I'm hoping this Brian biopic is the anti-I'm Not There. I'd rather have a Michael Bay movie marathon than watch that again.

[Chocolate Shake Man]

Why? I'm Not There is the anti-Walk The Line and the anti-Ray. That's why it is a much more compelling movie and it's probably also why it didn't get many award noms.

Agreed. I think this movie will be an artistic statement....

The only statement I could glean from I'm Not There is "I want Dylan's balls in my mouth," so I'm hoping this Brian biopic is the anti-I'm Not There. I'd rather have a Michael Bay movie marathon than watch that again.

In my opinion, I'm Not There is the best movie of the last 10 years.

[Roger Ryan]

I just remembered that writer/director Oren Moverman prominently used Brian's BWPS version of "Good Vibrations" in a bar scene in his film THE MESSENGER (as a juke box selection), so I suspect Moverman is already a fan.

[doinnothin]

From a recent IndieWire interview:

The Brian Wilson story, however, he's proud to report is "pretty much done."

"Unlike the Kurt Cobain thing," he said, referencing another biopic project that fell apart, "there is a general feeling that an unconventional storytelling approach is the way to go."

Moverman hopes to place the audience inside the Beach Boy's head, "to understand how do you get into that kind of genius mind that has all this music, but also all this tragedy, so much pain, so many scars." Writing the Bob Dylan story in "I'm Not There" was easier, he said, "because it was the idea of a shape shifter, someone who wouldn't tell you who he was, because he's been so many people in so many different periods." With Wilson, it's more complicated, Moverman said, because of the subject's combination of musical genius and mental illness. "There's all these awful things, and yet what you want to do is celebrate the creative mind and kind of understand it," he said. "He's a genius on the level of some of the greatest musical geniuses ever."

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/oren-moverman-says-his-brain-wilson-biopic-script-is-done-takes-unconventional-storytelling-approach

Man, I'm looking forward to this.

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

I undersstand but when you think about it, however it is done its going to be another 'Walk The Line' or 'Ray'.

Why? I'm Not There is the anti-Walk The Line and the anti-Ray. That's why it is a much more compelling movie and it's probably also why it didn't get many award noms.

Amen to that!

Couldn't agree more

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

OSD can play 70 year old Mike 

[Chris Brown]

From a recent IndieWire interview:

The Brian Wilson story, however, he's proud to report is "pretty much done."

"Unlike the Kurt Cobain thing," he said, referencing another biopic project that fell apart, "there is a general feeling that an unconventional storytelling approach is the way to go."

Moverman hopes to place the audience inside the Beach Boy's head, "to understand how do you get into that kind of genius mind that has all this music, but also all this tragedy, so much pain, so many scars." Writing the Bob Dylan story in "I'm Not There" was easier, he said, "because it was the idea of a shape shifter, someone who wouldn't tell you who he was, because he's been so many people in so many different periods." With Wilson, it's more complicated, Moverman said, because of the subject's combination of musical genius and mental illness. "There's all these awful things, and yet what you want to do is celebrate the creative mind and kind of understand it," he said. "He's a genius on the level of some of the greatest musical geniuses ever."

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/oren-moverman-says-his-brain-wilson-biopic-script-is-done-takes-unconventional-storytelling-approach

Man, I'm looking forward to this.

That was encouraging to read - it seems like Moverman "gets" it.  Of course, there's a long way to go between a great script and a great finished product, but at least we're starting off on the right foot.

[NatureShowInStereo]

Does he mean that the script is done? Or the filming, too?