Evan Rachel Wood becomes pop star Madonna in a first look image from WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story.
Evan Rachel Wood becomes pop icon Madonna in a first look image from WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story. After years of reigning supreme as the king of the pop music parody, the legendary Weird Al is finally getting his own musical biopic with Daniel Radcliffe in the title role.
The accordion-playing novelty artist Weird Al indeed exploded into prominence in the 1980s with parodies of songs by huge pop acts like Madonna, Michael Jackson and Queen. But unlike most novelty acts, Weird Al has endured for decades as a popular artist on his own, and his career has in fact outlasted many of the people he became famous for making fun of.
Wood of course is best-known for her role as the android Dolores on the mind-bending HBO series Westworld. In this case however she’s playing a flesh-and-blood character and in fact is tackling the task of embodying one of the biggest pop stars of all-time in Madonna. Weird Al's history of course encompasses a lot of big name stars, as he made his career turning their famous hits into silly parody songs.
Musical biopics are of course big business nowadays after both Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman went on to be major hits at the box office. Those films obviously featured major input by the artists being depicted, and such is the case again with WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story as Yankovic himself co-wrote the film’s script along with its director Eric Appel.
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