This is cinema Clash: Strummer biopic on the way

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by Kev Kharas [Edit this content] ▾ 21 comments 16:45 March 15th, 2007

Joe Strummer is set to get the full dead rock icon treatment this Summer, as he becomes the subject of his own biopic.

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten is being directed by Julien Temple - director of The Great Rock n' Roll Swindle - and will feature unseen footage of the great man; on location in the studio and at home as a child.

Martin Scorsese, Mick Jones and Bono are among the interviewees who appear in the documentary, while old audio clips from Strummer himself will be used to add narrative to the film.

A soundtrack will be made available prior to the film's release at UK cinemas on the 18th of May, the CD including unreleased cuts from The Clash as well as the work of other bands The 101ers and The Mescaleros.

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Looking forward to this

A colleague of mine saw a screening and said it was excellent.

joeymahone | 15 Mar '07, 16:50 | X | Reply

good to see Temple involved

means itll be worth a look

PaintyCanNed @joeymahone | 15 Mar '07, 17:00 | X | Reply

I hope Antony Genn of The Hours is in this documentary

That guy is awesome and the reason that The Mescaleros formed.

Acquiescence @PaintyCanNed | 15 Mar '07, 18:40 | X | Reply

Yeah, but...

Bono and Martin Scorsese!? I would quite happily go along at gob at them in old fashioned punk style if they held a fancy Leicester Square premiere.

Which they won't.

busstopboxer @Acquiescence | 15 Mar '07, 21:49 | X | Reply

Did anyone read

in the Grauniad that (in another music bio-pic in pre-production) Frodo was going to play Iggy Pop?

Napoleon | 16 Mar '07, 07:30 | X | Reply

Poor Julien Temple,

doomed to always be "Great Rock N Roll Swindle director Julien Temple". If it's any consolation, he'll always be "The Filth And The Fury director Julien Temple" to me.

SeymourMBA @Napoleon | 16 Mar '07, 09:43 | X | Reply

Bono, meanwhile,

can fuck off and die. Have you seen the New Order video where he starts singing 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' like a massive, massive cunt? If he does the same with 'Clash City Rockers' in this I will hunt him down and stab him in the face.

SeymourMBA @SeymourMBA | 16 Mar '07, 09:44 | X | Reply

Really???

That I did not know. The guy is funny but so far up his own arse it's cringe-worthy. Plus The Hours are cack!

JonnyRockstar @Acquiescence | 16 Mar '07, 13:27 | X | Reply

Yes, Terra,

that's because I hate him and want him to die.

SeymourMBA @Terra | 16 Mar '07, 14:38 | X | Reply

My hatred goes

beyond mere words.

SeymourMBA @Terra | 16 Mar '07, 16:44 | X | Reply

I will defintiely go watch this

but I'm not gonna set my hopes too high, because I really hate these Dreamgirls style biopics, but with Julien Temple on board, I should be safe. It would be a huge hypocrisy if they had a grand Leicster Square opening though, hopefully someone realises before its too late. As for Bono, its naueseating every time he's in some biography faking his adoration for a band, him being cut fromt he movie would improve it greatly.