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Robbie Williams is remodeled right into a CGI monkey for the upcoming semi-autobiographical biopic of his life, Better Man.

Charting his success from the early days of Take That to launching his unbelievable solo profession, the “honest” movie begins with Robbie admitting: “I’m Robbie Williams. I’m one of the biggest pop stars in the world. But I’ve always seen myself a little less… evolved.”

It seems director Michael Gracey selected the monkey angle for a particular function, asking Robbie: “If you were an animal, how would you see yourself? In your own words, you would refer to being dragged up onstage to perform like a monkey.

“It immediately clicked. With your voice and that monkey, I am going to see you and relate to you in a way that is going to be more engaging than yet another musical biopic,” The Greatest Showman star added.

Strangely, it’s not even probably the most weird biopic launched – there’s lots to sink your tooth into whereas ready for Better Man to launch in cinemas on December twenty sixth.

Another 2024 launch, Pharrell Williams determined he needed the story of his life informed completely in LEGO. The film sees the musician recommend: “You know what would be cool? If we told my story with LEGO pieces. Just be open.

“I was not interested in doing a film on my life, because I don’t particularly have the level of objectivity that most artists do. It gave me an amount of degrees of separation and disassociation that allowed me to look at myself more objectively.”

The Happy hitmaker additionally needed the movie to enchantment to youngsters after launching the Build the Change marketing campaign with LEGO into colleges.

Released in 1987, Todd Haynes needed to create a docudrama primarily based on The Carpenters star Karen Carpenter – out of Barbie dolls.

The movie explores Karen’s battle with anorexia and the way her band influenced 70s tradition, utilizing cease movement animation utilizing the dolls with voice actors talking over them. It took simply 10 days to movie.

The purpose behind the Barbie dolls is apparent – the slim, unimaginable to realize feminine figures have been slammed through the years for pushing unachievable magnificence requirements on younger ladies. But the film ended up banned after Karen’s brother Richard Carpenter sued the director for copyright infringement.

The movie is now not in circulation, although a number of bootleg copies do exist.

Released in 2021, Aline is extra of a musical comedy-drama than a straight biopic. What’s distinctive about it, you ask? Well, it follows a fictionalised model of Celine Dion – Aline Dieu.

The movie stars Valerie Lemercier, who in a weird accident, determined to play ‘Aline’ at each stage of her life moderately than hiring youngster actors to embody her childhood. This meant her face and physique needed to be digitally altered to make her look age-appropriate.

Celine’s household weren’t joyful concerning the film, slamming it for varied factual inaccuracies – however Celine herself hasn’t supplied remark.

While Timothee Chalamet is about to tackle the function of Bob Dylan for upcoming 2024 biopic A Complete Unknown, he’s removed from the primary actor to take action.

In truth, a document six Hollywood stars portrayed the musician in 2007 musical drama I’m Not There. Directed by Todd Haynes – sure, the identical Haynes behind Karen Carpenter’s controversial movie – it starred Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger and Ben Whishaw – all as Dylan.

The six actors portrayed completely different facets of the singer’s character, his public personas. The singer’s solely actual look within the film, in the meantime, is available in archival live performance footage from 1966, proven within the very last moments.