Brian Wilson biopic 'Love and Mercy' directed by Bill Pohlad starring Paul Dano

I don't know anyone that's ever seen it, but a Hendrix biopic without any Hendrix music seems pretty pointless.

it doesn't have hendrix music? i assume the estate wouldn't license any of it? whoops!

i imagine the brian wilson biopic directed by gus van sant and just being like five 15-minute-long shots of him sitting at his piano in the middle of a pile of sand in his living room, composing fragments of "til i die."

title: "busy doin' nothin'"

I don't know anyone that's ever seen it, but a Hendrix biopic without any Hendrix music seems pretty pointless.

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hendrix movie also had a controversial scene where he hits his gf, kathy etchingham (who denied such a thing ever happening).

idg the casting of John Cusack as beaten-down adult Brian AT ALL.

yeah ridiculous

it doesn't have hendrix music? i assume the estate wouldn't license any of it? whoops!

I believe this was exactly the case. I kept waiting for it to turn into The Johnny Handricks Story, ala the Jackie Jormp-Jomp biopic:

http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/ccserver.usc.edu/8080/cc/Members/ironman28/clips/30rockJanisMontageH264.mov/jpeg/30rockjanismontageh264-mov.jpg

There was a Brian Jones movie a while back that did the same thing--they had to stick to songs the Stones did covers of.

Trivia: director is son of Minnesota Twins owner Carl Pohlad.

i hate biopics on the whole, but i've been saying for years that BW's would make one of the more remarkable ones

I do know someone who saw that Andrex 3000 pic. he said it was awful

The Brian Wilson one could be great if based on Nick Kent's piece on him. It's one of the single best pieces of rock writing I've ever read, and it tells the story so well.

most biopics are pretty bad though some are entertaining. i'm a little intrigued by don cheadle's miles ahead thing since it is focusing on mostly on 70s electric miles and that 5-year recluse period, which doesn't strike me as the obvious traditional-biopic period to focus on w/r/t miles

another one where there's unlikely to be any actual musi

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If it's 2 hrs of a decrepit miles in a musty brownstone with blackout curtains, reluctantly entertaining visits from Lester Bowie and Cicely Tyson I'm for it.

otm

if you want the above in book form - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Miles-Go-The-Lost-Years-ebook/dp/B004L62GBU

LaSalle is a clown but this sounds promising

i'm pretty certain this will be awful, i'd put a little money down on it in fact.

cusack seems like he wandered into the wrong movie

Most of the reviews have been good, but I guess I have to accept Brian Wilson as genius.

what a leap for you

He looks more like Lionel Messi than Brian Wilson in that publicity pic. Missed opportunity to cast Bill Pullman as Landy-era Brian and, in his acting debut, Bill Clinton as 'prop him up behind a keyboard and send him out on tour' era Brian.

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I'd go with Jeff Daniels for post-Landy Brian.

https://divergentsuk.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/jeffdaniels.jpg

good call!

well AO Scott likes it

Another bio-pic? Do people even give a shit anymore? The Brian Wilson brand has become quite the bore.

Cusack on the role and doing shit movies to pay for the good ones

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/john-cusack-love-and-mercy-career/

also:

Back in 1988, William Hurt was going to play Wilson opposite Richard Dreyfuss as Landy

Do we finally find out how Brian Wilson became Spider-Man?

bitten by radioactive Phil Spector

So I saw this tonight because there was nothing better to do. It's not a great movie, a little ghoulish at times, but far better than it has a right to be. There were parts that I enjoyed, mainly the studio stuff.

Definitely not awful, let's say.

Basically the same--I liked it a little better. My favourite parts were also the creation of Pet Sounds. Cusack is good...as John Cusack. It never felt like I was watching Brian Wilson. Dano, on the other hand, yes. Giamatti was scary at times.

sounds like a renter

yeah i'm tempted to rent this and get up and make a sandwich if/when i'm bored by the cusack stuff

After portraying Nixon and Wilson, I'd like to see Cusack continue to portray an increasingly ill-fitting string of people from real life. Maybe late-period Orson Welles could be next?

surely that role belongs to DiCaprio

(Orson Welles is the original Sweaty Bigface, after all)

"john cusack IS fanny brice"

The thing I thought the film did really well was the way Brian is presented during those Pet Sounds sessions. They don't turn him into the caricatured tortured genius, ordering everyone around and making unreasonable demands (you get a little of that later); while Pet Sounds is being done, he's like a wide-eyed kid, cheering on everyone and clearly in love with all the new freedom he's afforded and all the incredible musicians he gets to work with. When his brothers return from Japan, and Mike Love starts questioning what Brian's been doing--but again, not in a way that reduces Love to a caricature; he just sees the band differently--that's when the rot starts to settle in.

it would be so easy to make mike love into a villain so if this film is fair to him i think that's to its credit

although i'm sure mike love is busy soliciting screenplays for good vibrations: the mike love story

martinique: mounds of rotting steak - the mike love story

Where My Weirdos At?: The Mike Love Story

man I would so watch a Mike Love biopic

Who is playing Mike Love? Any photos (w/ or w/out weirdoes)?

Hold on this guy is playing Mike Love??!?! I assume the casting director on this movie was, uh, Mike Love?

https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/abel__111109022207.jpg

if they shave a bald spot into him I can kinda see it

Dude's closer to Dennis as-is.