Director/Actress Julie Delpy to helm Joe Strummer biopic

Posted by john on Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 3:30 PM (EST)

Variety reports that actress and director Julie Delpy is set to film a biopic of legendary The Clash frontman Joe Strummer. The film will be called The Right Profile, after the song of the same name from the band's classic 1979 album, London Calling. According to Variety, the film will "focus on Strummer's life and his planned disappearance from the public spotlight in 1982."

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loki13 (November 22, 2011)

Who's gonna play Joe? John Cusak's too old now...

ozmanx (November 22, 2011)

CGI baby!

jacknife737 (November 22, 2011)

Well they did do it for that new tron movie....

ozmanx (November 22, 2011)

Still holds up for me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otppMltEGc4

porphyriax (November 22, 2011)

I never realized the resemblence...wow.

kidpresentable (November 22, 2011)

If you watch One Crazy Summer Cusack looks like he could be Joe's twin. It is uncanny.

loki13 (November 22, 2011)

And they were friends in real life. One of the Strummer docs...the Future is Unwritten, I think, has some cool stories about them in NYC.

ozmanx (November 22, 2011)

You're right

http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/8143/onecrazysummer19 86685x3.jpg

preston (November 22, 2011)

I dislike most biopics. The higher the profile of the subject the worse it is, but more time since the subjects death yields better results.

nickvicious (November 22, 2011)

Don't know how I feel about this. Huge Stummer fan, so that will make it incredibly difficult for any actor to convince that he is actually Joe. Which I guess is the problem with biopics...

mowlio (November 23, 2011)

Control is a great biopic if you haven't seen that already. They re-preformed some songs off of a tv show and re-shot it exactly how the original was, Pretty impressive imo ;)

craka-ass-craka (November 23, 2011)

Control was an amazing movie, really set the biopic bar!
I doubt the same magic can happen again. Nonetheless, when this movie is out, I'll throw down paper to see it.

Skibz777 (November 22, 2011)

Julie Delpy? The snobby side of Skibz is torn: on the one hand, he wants to love anything that comes from a Frenchwoman known for pretentious art films, but on the other, he wants to hate anything to do with punk rock. What to do...?

loki13 (November 22, 2011)

He played ska too.

Skibz777 (November 22, 2011)

Eww. That automatically makes someone a bad choice for a biopic...

Misanthropee (November 22, 2011)

How do you feel about Von Trier? I fucking despise him personally, I think Dogville is one of the worst most-pretentious pieces of shit I've ever seen, but I kind of liked Melancholia.

sbit (November 22, 2011)

That's why it should be set in the Mescaleros era.

sbit (November 22, 2011)

That is, in order to cast John Cusack.

ozmanx (November 22, 2011)

Loooving it loving it.

EchosMyron (November 22, 2011)

She was great as a Nazi snitch in Europa, Europa.

thismikeisapipebomb (November 22, 2011)

This isn't necessary, The Future is Unwritten is so unbelievable awesome as a documentary already.

Skibz777 (November 22, 2011)

But it didn't make as much money as if they made it into a Hollywood film starring Robert Pattinson. THAT'S where the artistic quality truly lies.