{"id":54795,"date":"2017-04-10T06:52:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T11:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=54795"},"modified":"2017-04-10T06:52:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T11:52:07","slug":"motley-crue-the-dirt-biopic-opts-for-no-name-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=54795","title":{"rendered":"M\u00d6TLEY CR\u00dcE &#8211; &#8220;The Dirt&#8221; Biopic Opts For &#8216;No Name&#8217; Actors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?attachment_id=54797\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54797\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/motley-crue-david-plastik-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-54797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/motley-crue-david-plastik-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/motley-crue-david-plastik-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/motley-crue-david-plastik-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/motley-crue-david-plastik.jpg 861w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?attachment_id=53871\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53871\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TMDDOTCOM-5-300x31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"31\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-53871\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt was recently announced that Netflix is now developing M\u00d6TLEY CR\u00dcE&#8217;s long awaited biopic, which is based upon the bestselling autobiography The Dirt: Confessions of the World\u2019s Most Notorious Rock Band, penned by band members Vince Neil, Tommy Lee, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx, along with author Neil Strauss.<\/p>\n<p>The biopic, which was previously being developed by Paramount Pictures and Focus Features, will detail the full story of CR\u00dcE&#8217;s excess with drugs, high-heeled hookers, makeup, hairspray and celebrity love affairs. It is being written by Rich Wilkes (Airheads, xXx) and Tom Kapinos (Californication), while Jeff Tremaine (Jackass) is set to direct. Band members Vince Neil, Tommy Lee, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx are also on board as co-producers.<\/p>\n<p>No official release date has been confirmed, nor does anyone know who is going to actually star as the the rockers. <\/p>\n<p>The writer penning the script for the movie adaptation of Motley Crue memoir \u201cThe Dirt\u201d originally called for Jared Leto to play lead vocalist Vince Neil in the film.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?attachment_id=54796\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54796\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LetoJoker-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-54796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LetoJoker-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LetoJoker-600x300.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LetoJoker-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LetoJoker-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LetoJoker.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><big><strong>&#8220;Really? But you&#8217;re casting NO Names, you say?&#8221;<\/strong><small><\/p>\n<p>In a prior  interview with MTV, \u201cThe Dirt\u201d co-writer Neil Strauss revealed screenwriter Rich Wilkes came up with his wish list of stars, who he\u2019d like to see as the rockers in the movie.<\/p>\n<p>Strauss said, \u201cHe told me who he\u2019d love to see in the film. Here\u2019s who he sees: Brad Pitt as David Lee Roth, Jared Leto as Vince Neil, Jack Black as Ozzy Osbourne. \u2026 Justin Timberlake as their first manager, Sam Rockwell as Mick Mars, Ashton Kutcher or Russell Brand as Tommy Lee. He\u2019s got it all thought out. That would be amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was also long believed that Johnny Knoxville was going to play bassist Nikki Sixx.<\/p>\n<p>Even Sixx himself knew the crazy JACKASS star was the right man to portray him, when he caught Knoxville urinating on a film boss&#8217; luxury car during an earlier production meeting.<\/p>\n<p>He said,&#8221;I feel pretty comfortable thinking about him doing it. He has the right attitude.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?attachment_id=54798\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54798\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/thedirt-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-54798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/thedirt-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/thedirt-600x926.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/thedirt.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nM\u00d6TLEY CR\u00dcE singer Vince Neil spoke with Las Vegas Magazine about the \u201cThe Dirt\u201d movie, and when asked how it struck him that he would be seeing an actor playing him on screen, Vince said: \u201cThat\u2019s gonna be strange. It\u2019s funny, I saw the table read of the last script. They have these different actors playing each person, and even just the table read of the script was weird when the Vince guy was talking. [Laughs] It wasn\u2019t the guy that\u2019s gonna play me, but it was just kind of weird hearing somebody say your words. It\u2019s a bit of a trip.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It has been confirmed now, according to drummer Tommy Lee, that the film will not include any big stars acting as the CR\u00dcE members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going with all unknowns,\u201d he said. \u201cI think that\u2019s crucial here, too. Getting known actors would not do anybody or the film or the band or any of that stuff justice. I think it would be watching a well-known actor play Vince or myself or Nikki or Mick [Mars] would be weird, because all of those other movies they\u2019ve done would be attached to that character, and it would be real hard to remove those. There\u2019s a lot of up-and-coming young actors that are fucking amazing, actually.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?attachment_id=54799\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54799\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/motleyfinal1-2-300x117.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"117\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-54799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/motleyfinal1-2-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/motleyfinal1-2-600x234.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/motleyfinal1-2.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MotleyCrue\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MotleyCrue<\/a><\/small><\/big><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was recently announced that Netflix is now developing M\u00d6TLEY CR\u00dcE&#8217;s long awaited biopic, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54795"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54809,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54795\/revisions\/54809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}