The last time I gave musical biopics some real thought was after watching Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story , where the parody exposed that genre of filmmaking for the pretty obvious formula it is but the sentiment still stung. After all, aren’t movie tributes to musical legends supposed to be as thrilling and revealing as the entertainers themselves? The news that Mary J. Blige will play jazz vocalist and civil rights hero Nina Simone in a new biopic is welcome, since Simone’s life story isn’t known to the average filmgoer in 2010, but I think the genre could still use a tune-up. Here are five musicians or bands who would pose an exciting alternative to the rote drugs-and-redemption arc of most biopics.
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5 Musician Biopics We’d Actually Pay to See
