Top Five Musicians Whose Lives Should be Turned into Oscar-bait Biopics

For every Control there’s a Ray, and for every Backbeat there’s a Beyond the Sea.

I have yet to watch Walk the Line, but Control was mind-blowing, and I still rewatch Backbeat whenever it’s on TV (And seriously, why hasn’t Johnny Depp played Adam Ant yet?).  Rumour has it Dakota Fanning is set to play the lead singer of Joan Jett’s band in an upcoming film. So who else should become fodder for the Hollywood profit-wringing mill?

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Vanilla Ice, played by Jake Busey

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Prince, played by Adam Rodriguez (Delko on CSI Miami)

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Linda Ronstadt, played by Katie Holmes

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Janis Joplin, played by Abigail Breslin

(she’ll be old enough by the time the film has gotten through development)

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Rick Astley, played by Orlando Bloom

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Bryan Adams, played by David Beckham in his big-screen debut

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The Mamas and the Papas, played by Topher Grace, Sienna Miller, Tobey Maguire, and some unknown heavy girl since there are no heavy girls under the age of thirty onscreen in Hollywood movies

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(Tiffany almost made the list, but have you ever done a Google Image search for Tiffany? Yeesh.)

Who did I miss? Whose drug-laden meteoric rise to fame and subsequent abysmal fall should be captured on film for everyone to watch whether they like it or not?

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