A standard grievance about musical biopics, as fashionable as they’re with audiences, is that they usually wrestle to cram the scope of a lifetime right into a span of about two hours. How do you inform the story of an incredible artist — and embrace a bunch of their most beloved music — in so quick period of time? Issues must be minimize, occasions must be condensed, and the entire undertaking can really feel just like the CliffNotes model of a biography when it’s achieved improper.
It’s form of stunning that there haven’t been extra musical biography TV exhibits so far — as a result of the large-scale canvas of a six or eight or ten-part collection would provide you with many extra hours of room to inform tales, and to play extra nice pop music. However somebody lastly had the very sensible thought to attempt that. J.J. Abrams’ Unhealthy Robotic are engaged on a “scripted collection” for Netflix in regards to the iconic rock band U2.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, the present “is at the moment within the early improvement levels” and “shall be penned by Anthony McCarten,” the author of the massively profitable biopic Bohemian Rhapsody about Queen, which wound up grossing over $911 million worldwide in 2018. THR doesn’t have too many extra particulars than that, however they do observe that the band — Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen — are “anticipated to be concerned and sanction the undertaking.”
I’m undecided U2 could be my high choose for a biopic TV collection, however they definitely have sufficient music to get folks within the present. That alone goes to get lots of consideration.
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