Russell Brand Axes Booky Wook Biopic
Posted by Rodneyon 29. 05. 2008in News Chat
UK Rocker Russell Brand has decided to halt progress on a film adaptation of his tell all autobiography My Booky Wook. We get the scoop from our friends at MTV:
American audiences may have just been introduced to Russell Brand thanks to a scene-stealing performance in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” but the British comic is quite well known in his native land. No, REALLY well known, after Brand wrote a “warts and all” autobiography, “My Booky Wook,” which chronicled his rise to fame and his subsequent drug addictions.
Brand would like to keep it that way (the part about Americans not knowing about his past, that is), telling MTV News that he’s decided not to move forward with a movie adaptation of “Booky Wook,” which was to be directed by “24 Hour Party People” helmer Michael Winterbottom. “I’m not going to make the Booky Wooky into a film anymore because then people in America will learn what my past is like. [Of course],people that can be bothered to read will know that I have a checkered past,” he laughed.
Brand goes on in the article to joke that he will be playing himself in films for the next 10 years anyway, (making a biopic overkill). His upcoming project Get Him to the Greek has him playing a rock star and he will no doubt continue to score these roles until filmmakers find other suitable parts for him. He suggests that after 10 years of playing himself – he will be pigeon holed into playing mailmen. I don’t know much about this overseas sensation – but from the interviews I have read, he’s fuckin’ hilarious.
This guy is who he is and fame seems to be thrust upon him; I like the cut of his jib.
I think it’s a shame that his biopic has been halted, I guess I will have to read his Booky Wook and find out why.
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Er… he’s a comedian, not a rocker
….and a great one too, check out some of his live material on youtube folks.
I find him to be quite funny especially his random ranting from his Ponderland show but i do know a few people who can’t stand him.
I don’t find him funny at all and he’s a love or hate him type of celeb (I find him hugely annoying).
However he’s a very clever and intelligent individual, and didn’t fall into being famous, he’s actively sought it out.
He’s also very, very infamous for bedding anything he takes a fancy too. So the US mainstream will take to him until their conservative nature assert itself.
Anyone who dresses like a glam metal singer is a rocker in my books.
I love Russell Brand. When I heard that “My Booky Wook” was being made into a movie, I got really, really excited. It is one of the best written book’s I have ever read, and I really enjoyed it. Now that it’s been put to a halt, I feel rather…let down. I am a huge fan of Russell’s stand up, acting, and most recently his writing! He is a very talented person. I guess I will just have to wait until “My Booky Wook 2: This Time It’s Personal” is released. :)