Joni Mitchell fans, rest assured: A biopic is coming.
The film’s director, Cameron Crowe, recently shared new details surrounding the project — though it’s still up in the air as to who will portray the music icon, 81.
“We’re going to make it next year. There’s not a lot I can say about it,” Crowe, 68, told The New York Times in an interview published September 13. “Soon I’ll be able to speak more definitively about who’s in it and how we’re gonna do it and everything.”
And — given the casting rumors that have swirled — when asked if Meryl Streep and Anya Taylor-Joy are playing the Canadian-American at different parts of her life, Crowe replied, “Can’t confirm that. I wish I could.”
The Almost Famous director, meanwhile, took time to share about the genesis of his idea for the biopic.
“I actually had a dream of a structure of how to tell that story,” he said. “So I called [Joni’s] place and told her right-hand person that I’d had this dream, and if somebody comes knocking, come to me first and I’ll tell you this idea and we’ll see what happens. She’s like: ‘They’re knocking all the time, and Joni wonders why you’ve taken so long to call. So yes, come over and tell us what your idea is.’ This was about four and a half years ago. Joni said: ‘Let’s spend every Monday night. You come over here, we’ll talk. You ask me anything you want.’ So that’s what I’ve been doing all this time. It’s been incredibly inspiring — the most I’ve interviewed anybody, the deepest-tissue kind of conversations I’ve had with any artist, and I’ve found it invigorating and can’t wait to make the movie.”
Finally, when asked what is most important to him to convey in a film about Mitchell that hasn’t already been conveyed about the legend, Crowe answered, “Her life from her point of view. Everybody’s kind of phobic about the term ‘biopic,’ but a biographical story about somebody should give you the feeling — like, a Joni Mitchell movie should feel like a Joni Mitchell album.”
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