10 Music Film Biopics Not Yet Made
#6 - Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart
I wrote an article a while back that didnt make it onto the site on why this movie should categorically not happen. I was fresh from reading the book though and rather biased and impassioned in my logic and reasoning with that thought process having now cooled rather drastically I believe that done right this movie could be a triumph that said, done wrong it could be a train wreck.
It could turn millions on to Motley Crues music and onto one of the greatest reads Ive ever had. The Dirt is a warts and all account of the highs and many devastating lows of one of the most anarchic, self-destructive rock bands of all time. 80s hair metal is now considered a joke and thought of as soft but Motley Crue are the complete antithesis of soft. The Crues sex, drugs and alcohol-fuelled antics are the stuff of legend and how all four members are still with us today I dont know.
After the success of The Dirt, the inevitable rumblings of a film adaptation began, Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm veteran Larry David was rumoured to be involved at one point. If Charles or whoever ends up being tasked with bringing The Dirt to the big screen can somehow harness the unputdownable (yes, I know that's not a word) nature of the book onto film then we could have something very special on our hands.