Ian Curtis: The Movie
Filed under: Drama, Independent, Music & Musicals, Newsstand, Cinematical Indie
Listen up, Joy Division fans. You know Torn Apart: The Life Of Ian Curtis, Mick Middles and Lindsay Reade's biography of your hero? Well, the long-rumored movie based on that book is finally, officially happening. Coming from a screenplay by Tom Browne, the film -- entitled All The Time -- will focus on "Curtis' early efforts to launch Joy Division while holding down a government job" while also exploring "his life, his work, his relationships and the cultural environment in which he lived and died." Whoa. If it actually covers all that, this is going to be a long damn movie.Though no casting decisions have yet been made, the movie is in interesting hands: Music video director Jamie Thraves -- who will be making his first feature in six years -- is at the helm. Thraves, who directed the videos for Radiohead's Just (the one with the guy lying on the sidewalk) and Blur's Charmless Man (though performance-based, this one still has quite a nasty edge to its narrative), is clearly both a skilled filmmaker and someone who is in touch with British music (or at least was in 2000).
The film will shoot in Manchester, but the start date has not yet been determined.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
6-19-2006 @ 3:40PM
Patrick said...
Does this replace Anton Corbijn's Ian Curtis movie? Or will we be getting 2 biopics about him?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421082/
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6-19-2006 @ 6:32PM
Martha Fischer said...
My impression, Patrick, is that both are coming -- sort of like the trio of Chet Baker flicks, and the duo of films about Marvin Gaye also in production. Hollywood is a weird, unoriginal place.
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6-19-2006 @ 10:09PM
What are you TALKING about? said...
Lindsay Reade and Mick Middles are involved in the Anton Corbijn movie.
It's the same film.
why don't you check out www.neworderonline.com? They know what they're talking about there.
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6-21-2006 @ 11:39AM
Christopher Campbell said...
I don't know what Mr. Anonymous is talking about, but I can't find anything concrete at the New Order website. In the news section I found articles about the casting for Corbijn film (Sam Riley and Samantha Morton as Ian and Deborah, respectively, and Downfall's Alexandra Maria Lara as Ian's lover) as well as the fact that his film is based on Deborah Curtis' book "Touching From a Distance." Plus the two films have different screenwriters.
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