Animated musician biopics...Hollywood's new gold rush?

[Monterey Jack]

What the f#@! is going on?!

[Paul MacLean]

I’m waiting for the Lego remake of Amadeus.

[TaranofPrydain]

I had heard about the Robbie Williams/monkey one. I guess that was the subject's decision to handle it that way.

As for the other two, yeesh. The one seems like it is meant as a kids film, but surely they could make another kids lego film without making it a biopic. And as for Phil Collins, it just seems like a cheap move....go on, they should simply recreate the neon world of Miami Vice from scratch by filming on location ( Collins appeared on the show in December 1985)

[Monterey Jack]

The Robbie Williams monkey movie cost $110 million ($25 million more than Baz Luhrmann's Elvis! ), and is gonna make like $1.5 million this weekend, getting beaten out by The Brutalist (a 3-1/2 hour immigrant drama that's on only 68 screens at the moment).

Who in this country even knows who Robbie Williams is?

[AndyDursin]

Why did Paramount spend $25 million on acquisition rights to that? The whole "let's make it look like PLANET OF THE (MOCAP) APES" premise was just one of the dumbest things I can ever remember in terms of a gimmick. At least the Lego thing somewhat made sense because that's become a whole "genre" onto itself.

[Monterey Jack]

Plus, calling it Better Man just makes me think of Pearl Jam.

[Monterey Jack]

Hell...Better Man is actually good. Great, even. Take away the monkey head gimmick, and it's a superb, surprisingly affecting film, with electric musical sequences.