The original “girl on a motorcycle”, Marianne Faithfull , has agreed to let her life story be told on film. Faithfull was Mick Jagger’s girlfriend and a legendary party animal, who sunk into heroin addiction and homelessness.
She inspired the classic Stones songs You Can’t Always Get What You Want, Let’s Spend the Night Together and Wild Horses.

Spike Lee is set to make a movie about James Brown.
Lee and Paramount Pictures acquired the rights to the Brown biopic
shortly after the singer died in 2006 of heart failure
The Godfather of Soul will be played by Wesley Snipes,
if he wins his appeal against his three year conviction
for federal income tax evasion.

Telstar is the film about the life of Joe Meek,
the flamboyantly gay, occult obsessed, tone deaf,
legendary British producer behind the '60s hits
"Johnny, Remember Me" and "Telstar".
In February 1967, the eighth anniversary of Buddy Holly's death,
Meek killed his landlady and then himself
with a single barreled shotgun at his home/studio.

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Beyonce Knowles has stated her desire to play sexy hero Wonder Woman on the big screen.

"A black Wonder Woman would be a powerful thing," the singer and actress tells the LA Times. "It’s time for that, right?"

Actress Lynda Carter made the role of the skimpily dressed heroine famous on TV in the 1970s.

"I
would definitely have to keep it right for that costume," says Beyonce.
"The way that Lynda Carter wore it, she was so fine.  Her waist was unbelievable. It was
pretty crazy, actually, her proportions."

Er, Bootylicious…