NEWS: Quentin Tarantino to Direct Jimi Hendrix Biopic

CULTURE: Quentin Tarantino to Direct Jimi Hendrix Biopic

Contact Music says director Quentin Tarantino has signed on to direct a Jimi Hendrix biopic. Apparently, Tarantino is working with Leon Hendrix, Jimi's brother, to flesh out the project. The final version will include live documentary footage of Hendrix. Shooting is scheduled to start later this year.

My vote: Andre 3000 to play Jimi.
Oh, and this has the potential to be very, very awesome...or to make me cry.

It seems like a new Tarantino rumor pops up every month or so (remember Friday the 13th XII or the Vega Brothers). Seeing as Death Proof is still in pre-production and Inglorious Bastards hasn't even reached that point, color me skeptical.

tarantino is (usually) the man !

andre would look the part but can he act. Realisitcally he does have enough time to attend some classes.

He was amusing on the shield. Never saw the movie he did with Wahlberg though, so I don't know.

April 26, 1992. There was a riot in the streets. Tell me, where were you?

I can't wait to see/hear more!

The odds of this happening with QT at the helm are roughly the same as the odds of finding a picture of Iggy Pop wearing a shirt buried in a crater on the moon.

I'd love to be wrong, though.

Could be killer!

mos def for the lead...

I've actually heard Andre 3000 rumours before, though this is the first I've heard about QT's involvement. I agree that Andre would look the part, but Jimi in person was not at all like his onstage persona; he was very shy and introverted. I hope they get the characterisation right.

Tarantino? Oh lord.

The last Hendrix bio was so so so bad, even though the guy they got to play him did a great job of talking like him. He just couldn't move or play anything close to Jimi so it looked terrible. Plus it had the production value of an afterschool special.

that would be fucking awesome

i think it could rock.

Lenny Kravitz wouldn't be a bad choice, although I am not sure how good he is at acting.

I can just imagine, the movie opens with Jimi Hendrix lying in a pool of his own puke.

I don't like Tarantino at the helm of this project.

I think it would make much more sense (not to mention would make for a million times more beautiful movie) for Michel Gondry to direct it. I mean who would be better at capturing on film the emotional essence of Jimi Hendrix, while still beautifully painting the psychotropic picture of the 70s rock scene? Besides, Gondry is known for his incredible music videos, so to give him this movie would be obvious.

Tarantino directing a biopic seems...odd to me.

that's why it's a good idea, though, it's kinda weird.

i mean, it certainly won't be like some sorta vh1 or hitler channel history channel bio.

[Edited on Apr 27, 2006 by llouys]

It really isn't that weird, though. Tarantino has said that he wants to direct basically every kind of genre movie before he retires. He started with Jackie Brown.

Blacksploitation, action, horror, war, and now biopic (if this goes through).

forgive me for being clueless, but what war pic did he direct?

yeah, don't forget, samurai (kill bill 1), western (kill bill two) and noir (sin city)
well....kinda noir...noirish

He's probably talking about Tarantino's long-planned war movie, Inglorious Bastards. Legendary 600-page script and all...

You said it my man.

Tarantino is a legend, but with legends come the "He's eight feet tall!" and the "His cock drags four feet behind him!", except in this case it's his production schedule.

I've been waiting for Inglorious Bastards for maybe 5 or 6 years now. It's sick.

You were sitting at home watching your TV, when I was par-ticipating in some anarchy!





Andre 3000 would ROCK this part!

Okay, fuck it, I'll be the first: Tarantino, Black man in his movie, where's the connection already...

"Muthafucka!"

in the movie with mark 4 brothers he was great i liked his acting