Django Biopic Update

RomKyzar

Well it looks like Frank Marshall at least, will not be doing any
Django pic anytime soon. He is currently starting up the fourh
Bourne movie, the fourth Jurassic Park, and something still
labeled a 'Lance Armstrong Project.' The Bourne pic is scheduled
to finish in 2010.

djangology

Maybe we could clone another Frank Marshall. The technology for cloning will probably exist before he gets around to it himself...

MichaelHorowitz

MARSHALL: What I’m planning on directing is the LANCE ARMSTRONG STORY and another book called THE PERFECT MILE, which is the story of John Landy, Roger Bannister and Wes Santee trying to break the 4-minute mile. And then I have a script about Django Reinhardt who is the father of the modern jazz guitar – a French gypsy. I bought the story idea while making BOURNE IDENTITY in Paris. I met the publisher and got real excited [about it]. So there I am. It’s going to take us until 2010.

http://www.ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=1413

MichaelHorowitz

‘Indy’
Super-Producer Looks To Director’s Chair For Jazz Biopic

Published by Shawn Adler on Thursday, January 10,
2008 at 12:23 pm.

“Indiana Jones 4,” “Jurassic Park 4,” “Roger
Rabbit 2,”
“Bourne 4” – pick a franchise, any great franchise, and Frank Marshall
is probably working hard at bringing it back to the big screen. But ask
him which one he’s most excited for the world to see? Easy. None of the
above.

“I do have one that I’m personally passionate about that I hope to
direct, which is the story of a French guitarist named Django
Reinhardt,” Marshall revealed to MTV News. “He’s arguably the father of
modern jazz guitar - a French gypsy who kind of was the Elvis of Europe
in the 40s. So I bought the rights to his life, his music, and to the
other famous guy in his band, a violin player named Stefan Grappelli.
Reinhardt’s a fascinating character who inspired my dad to start
playing jazz guitar.”

Which more or less makes him the reason the Marshall family is in
LA, the super-producer said – meaning we have him to thank for all
those great movies. Marshall can’t wait to repay the favor.

“It’s being held up because of the strike [but] I’m putting my own
notes down as a director,” he declared. “I was incredibly inspired by
‘La Vie en Rose.’ I want it to be like that. I want it to be music and
story and not just a straight biopic.”

Klezmorim

Well, I think if Marshall would do a bio-pic about Django, I hope it would not be as dark as the story about "La Môme Piaf." There are some truly humorous anecdotes about Django, but I also wouldn't want the movie to be a yuk-fest, either.

If done well, such a movie could generate a LOT of interest in "our" music.

MichaelHorowitz

Additionally, Marshall is planning to return to the director's chair with -- a "passion project" still in the early stages -- a biopic based on the life of musician Django Reinhardt.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=51103

MichaelHorowitz

Recent interview with Frank Marshall:

http://www.collider.com/entertainment/i ... 179/tcid/1

At 4:30 he says he hopes to start working on the Django film by late 2009!

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