10 Movie Biopics That Desperately Need To Happen
6. Bob Marley
Fantasy Casting: Donald Glover
There was a Bob Marley movie in 2012, but this was more of documentary; it featured performances, archived footage and interviews with the man himself. Insightful, certainly, but a true biopic might be able to capture his life story in a more precise way.
An iconic figure in establishing both reggae music and Jamaican culture in the mainstream, Marley’s legacy is far bigger than his greatest hits. With his lifelong support for pan-African relations, the legalisation of marijuana and his high profile conversion to Rastafarianism, there’s a lot of depth to the man behind the music.
A lover of football, a popular urban legend suggests that a charity football match with Danny Baker caused the cancer which killed him. In fact, he’d injured the toe earlier and refused a routine operation on religious grounds, so the cancer slowly spread to his brain, killing him.
Donald Glover excels in both music and acting, so has the two key parts of the performance down. In his own show Atlanta, he’s tackled spiritually in the same way as Marley did in music, and definitely has the intelligence to carry out this role.