http://www.moviehole.net/news/6339.html

Geez, been hearing about this one for longer than I've cut my toe nails.

Mike Myers has finally signed on the straight line to play drummer Keith Moon in a biopic based on "The Who" band-member, best known as the finest 'drum kit' destroyer in history - and also, a dude with a gift for playing with the sticks.

According to Variety, the film has been in the works for about ten years - I've never heard anyone else mentioned for the part of Moon but Wayne Campbell himself - with Roger Daltrey and Nigel Sinclair finally getting it off the pavement.

The film, being developed by Sinclair's Spitfire Pictures, will tell of the hard-living rocker Moon - known for his wild behaviour on and off-stage - whose batteries ran out in 1978.

Here's hoping Nicolas Cage is still the firm fave to wear the vest of Pete Townsend. There's no substitute, really, is there?

I cannot believe that fans would want Nicolas Cage.

I think whoever wrote the article was being sarcastic about the Nic Cage reference. That's how I read it, anyway.

this is SUCH A BAD IDEA.

Was Keith Moon scottish? That's the only reason I could understand this casting.

Here's a more "legitimate" source:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111792 ... =1&s=h&p=0

It all sounds like a very bad nightmare to me.

Unless Mike has access to an anti-aging machine or this film all takes place in the last week of Keith's life (when he did indeed look older than his 31 years), there's little chance of him pulling off the young Moon we all want to see. Everyone knows Jason Schwartzman should play Keith Moon: he's young, he's a drummer, and he fucking looks like him.

Yeah, I'm just not seeing it...

"M-O-O-N, that's how Tom Cullen spells Myers has first right of refusal. LAWS, yes."

woah.

That's uncanny.


Wait. Mike Myers on drums? Shouldn't it be Garth?

For real...I mean, isn't Owen Wilson a no-brainer???

So, do you see that we have to make sure Schwatzman plays Keith Moon? We must rise up and make it so!

Well, I guess if Vivian Leigh can play Scarlett O'Hara, an American can play Keith Moon.

Steve

A movement I can get behind.

It is called "acting," my dear boy.

Party time.. Ehhhxcelllent!!!! wheeeerrrrooo whhheeerooowwheeerrooo

Yeah, I heard Schwartzman was just barely edged out by Jaime Foxx for Ray.

Steve

Yeah, that's a similar comparison...

Regardless of who plays Moon, I just hope there's a happy ending.

Jesus, is there some sort of petition we could sign to get Schwartzman cast instead? Holy cripes he would be perfect.

Mike Myers? Oh god no. He seems to ruin movies for the past few years.

I love Scwartzman. Oh yes indeedy I do.

There is, but the movie ends when he's 12.

Steve

I got this.