Brian Wilson Biopic?

[Letsgoawayforawhile]

Dano is awesome. Just watched Ruby Sparks recently, and loved it.
He seems to be a very committed, and talented actor. He'll do great playing Brian.

[runnersdialzero]

Paul Dano was hired for his bangs slightly crooked mouth and not much else.

I don't want to make this like a final warning, but as it's not the first time I told you this, I say it one more time:

Do NOT quote someone, and then alter the words. (even if you think it's just meant to be funny)

Nevermind that I crossed it out as to make it obvious that it was modified, that it wasn't at all hurtful to the original poster and was meant to criticize whoever cast this guy as Brian, that I see modified quotes on literally every other board on the internet that I've been to, and above all, that this is the single most irrational rule I've ever heard of.

Sorry, I forgot and will probably forget again despite my efforts not to. I try hard to be strong, but sometimes I fail myself.

[bgas]

Paul Dano was hired for his bangs slightly crooked mouth and not much else.

I don't want to make this like a final warning, but as it's not the first time I told you this, I say it one more time:

Do NOT quote someone, and then alter the words. (even if you think it's just meant to be funny)

Nevermind that I crossed it out as to make it obvious that it was modified, that it wasn't at all hurtful to the original poster and was meant to criticize whoever cast this guy as Brian, that I see modified quotes on literally every other board on the internet that I've been to, and above all, that this is the single most irrational rule I've ever heard of.

Sorry, I forgot and will probably forget again despite my efforts not to. I try hard to be strong, but sometimes I fail myself.

Personally speaking: you're the ONLY one I see using the quotes from others and changing them within. It's not that hard to do, you just  quote and make your own remarks.
You have things to say, you should say them. But if it means inside/changing someone else's postings, I think they should ban you.
Is there anyone on here that wants their posts changed by someone else?

[runnersdialzero]

I'm failing to understand why this is such a horrific sin. Yes, it's generally meant in humor. Humor is meant for folks who have a sense of humor, my mistake.

I've seen it done very, very frequently on literally every other message board I've been to in my life. I'm not "changing people's posts", and if I were somehow doing that, then yes, that would be a problem. And yes, I want my posts quoted and changed because I have a sense of humor and because I understand how to read a message board (and other things) in a linear, traditional fashion (i.e. beginning to end) and despite initially believing others could probably do the same, it's beginning to seem like I'm the only one here who is capable of such sorcery.

If I'm banned over this, I'll laugh. I've seen some extremely cruel, mean-spirited sh*t go on between some users here, some (not all) of it at the hands of people in a "higher position" than you and I who should really know better and learn to conduct themselves in public a little better, without mods so much as telling them to stop or at least take it down a level. Nothing. It's happened with such frequency (to varying extents, granted) and been bad enough to deter me from posting nearly as often as I used to. After all that, this is the thing they opt to call someone out on?

[Myk Luhv]

RDZ for admin!

[SMiLE Brian]

I fail to see the problem here, RDZ is the humor guy here.

[Shady]

The life of reclusive musician Brian Wilson from his early success with the '60s surfing band The Beach Boys to his highly-publicized nervous breakdown, to his recent reemergence as an acclaimed singer-songwriter-performer.

This movie won't be sensationalist at all

[Myk Luhv]

You can't seriously be surprised.

[Shady]

Not at all. It's just conformation to set the bar really low

[Shady]

http://www.showbiz411.com/2013/01/18/paul-dano-excited-to-learn-piano-to-play-brian-wilson-circa-pet-sounds

Paul Dano is the soft spoken but oft-buzzed about young actor who’s already been great in films like “Little Miss Sunshine” and “There Will Be Blood.” Now he’s just been signed to play Beach Boy Brian Wilson in “Love and Mercy,” about the life and times of the troubled genius behind America’s answer to the Beatles. “Love and Mercy” is set to be directed by first timer Bill Pohlad, the money man who’s been funding Terrence Malick’s latest chapter of films, and whose family comes from Minnesota Twins fame. (I wish he’d reconsider; producers rarely make good directors even when their hearts are in the right place.)

Dano was very excited about his new role when I ran into him last night at the opening of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” on Broadway. “I have to learn to play the piano,” he told me. “And I have to work on my singing.” Dano said he plays guitar, so he’s on top of that. And he doesn’t seem daunted by the keyboards. “I can play chords already, and I know enough to get by.” But he’s really going to work on it.

(UPDATED And CLARIFIED) “Love and Mercy” is the name of a late Brian Wilson song from his 1988 solo debut album. At the time, Wilson was still under the sway of his Svengali, Dr. Eugene Landy, now deceased. Dano will play young Wilson around the time of the recording of “Pet Sounds” in the mid 1960s.  Wilson will also be depicted around  the time in the late 1990s when he was finally freed from Landy’s clutches. Depending on how it’s written and who plays the older Wilson and the character of Landy, the movie could be very interesting. I met Dr. Landy at Wilson’s “autobiography” launch in 1996, and he was one scary guy. The fact that he had Wilson under his thumb was made abundantly clear.

Chuck Klosterman wrote in the New York Times in 1996: “If Landy wasn’t around, Wilson was shadowed by two musclebound assistants. (When Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac tried to work with Wilson in the late ’80s, he called these henchmen “surf Nazis.”) Over time, Wilson took to referring to Landy as “my master” and turned over to him the reins of his semiresurrected career. Landy (who managed the jazz guitarist George Benson during the 1960s) began writing Wilson’s lyrics and taking 50 percent of his earnings, plus a monthly $35,000 fee. He became the beneficiary of the musician’s will. He produced Wilson’s 1988 solo record and engineered Wilson’s ghost-written autobiography, “Wouldn’t It Be Nice — My Own Story,” much of which lionized the brilliance of Dr. Eugene Landy. (Later, Wilson would admit that he didn’t even read the book he supposedly helped write.)”

Producers of “Love and Mercy” are looking for someone to play Wilson– who thank god is still very much alive and active–in those years.

[Quzi]

i smell AWFUL

[Jay]

This is going to sound really weird and off the wall, but Steven Seagal would probably be great for the overweight 1992-95 Brian era.

[Paulos]

This is going to sound really weird and off the wall, but Steven Seagal would probably be great for the overweight 1992-95 Brian era.

NO! Seagull is a horrible, horrible actor.

[Quzi]

they should just do it in claymation, i'm sure brian would approve

[Lowbacca]

This is going to sound really weird and off the wall, but Steven Seagal would probably be great for the overweight 1992-95 Brian era.

NO! Seagull is a horrible, horrible actor.

Blasphemy!!  


Besides... slap a beard on this and you got an acceptable late 70's BW (who can kick ninja asses on top of singing about tomboys):

[Paulos]

You're a good guy Lowbacca but on this subject we must agree to disagree!



Put a beard on this...and it only gets more terrifying.

[SMiLE Brian]

  Steve Seagal

[The Heartical Don]

IIRC there were plans to do this around 1989.

With William Hurt (Landy), and Jeff Bridges (Brian).

Now, Bridges, 24 years ago, would have made a very fine Brian, I don't doubt that, and Hurt is a great actor too.

Thing is, way back then, it would probably first and foremost have been a hagiography about mr. Landy.

Times surely do change, don't they?

[The Heartical Don]

[KittyKat]

If they call it "Love and Mercy," the only people who go to see it will be Christian females. The love part will turn off at least some males (because they'll think it's romance and would be too embarrassed to ask for a ticket for it at the multiplex or see it with their buddies), and the mercy part will turn off people who think it will be some kind of religious movie. It sounds like a Kirk Cameron movie title.

[Cam Mott]

I think [or agree] that Paul Dano may be brilliant casting.

[Lowbacca]

I don't know if the films gonna be any good, but I trust Dano to do an awesome job with Brian's character. Great actor. Rather inspired casting, too.

[Alex]

NPH has to play Mike Love!!

[Shady]

NPH has to play Mike Love!!

That's interesting, the rest of the Beach Boys still have to be cast.

Daniel Day Lewis to play Mike, please.

[SMiLE Brian]

Daniel Day Lewis as Murry so "there will be blood" part two can happen.