Lemmy Kilmister – Biopic In The Works

Deadline has reported that late MOTÖRHEAD frontman/bassist Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister will be the subject of an upcoming biographical movie. Greg Olliver, who directed the 2010 documentary ‘Lemmy‘, will be helming the picture. The film “will chronicle the metal legend’s early live and rise to fame, his infamous exploits and more.”

Todd Singerman and Steffan Chirazi, who played behind the scenes roles in management and creative consultant, etc. capacities for Motörhead will serve as executive producers. Production is expected to commence in early 2021. Speaking of his vision for the film, Olliver stated:

“Everything you’ve heard about Lemmy is probably true… not because he was embracing rock n’ roll clichés, but because he was creating them. Marlboro Reds and Jack Daniel’s for breakfast, speed for dinner – all true. But behind that steely-eyed façade of rock n’ roll was also a compelling, complicated and lion-hearted man who stayed the course and never gave up playing the music that made him happy.

We’ve been carefully developing this biopic since 2013, making sure to stay true to Lemmy, Motörhead band members Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee, and all the other folks that played important roles in Lemmy’s life. This will be a film they’ll be proud of.”

“Motörhead’s overwhelmingly loud and fast style of heavy metal was one of the most groundbreaking sounds the genre had to offer in the late ’70s. Though the group’s leader, Lemmy Kilmister, had his roots in the hard-rocking space rock band Hawkwind, Motörhead didn’t bother with his old group’s progressive tendencies, choosing to amplify the heavy biker-rock elements of Hawkwind with the speed of punk rock. Motörhead wasn’t punk rock (they formed before the Sex Pistols and they loved the hell-for-leather imagery of bikers too much to conform with the safety-pinned, ripped T-shirts of punk), but they were the first metal band to harness that energy and, in the process, they created speed metal and thrash metal. Unlike many of their contemporaries, Motörhead continued performing into the next century. Although they changed their lineup many, many times — Lemmy, who passed away in 2015, was their only consistent member — they never changed their raging sound.” – All Music