Zooey Deschanel is Janis Joplin
Zooey Deschanel will replace Pink in the Janis Joplin biopic The Gospel According to Janis.
Penelope Spheeris will direct from a script she co-wrote with David Dalton. Dalton was once assigned by Rolling Stone to write a cover story that was going to compare the troubled Joplin to Judy Garland. Dalton accompanied the singer on a long tour and his adventure has become the central plot of the film. An actor will soon be cast to play him with shooting currently scheduled to begin in November in Philadelphia.
(Renee Zellweger is currently attached to another Joplin biopic which recently stalled at Paramount.)
Deschanel’s credits include Elf with Will Ferrell and Failure to Launch with Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew McConaughey.
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Brian Nielsen on
Mon, 11th May 2009 10:29 pm
Zooey’s definitley got “the pipes” , just listen to her version (”She and He”) of “You really got a hold on me”, but she’s just too damn pretty to be Janis, no matter how they “rough her up”. Janis was “hardscrabble” East Texas.
I can’t see Zooey (and I’m a big fan) pulling it off.
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