Girl You Know It's True: Milli Vanilli Movie Coming Soon
Filed under: Drama, Music & Musicals, Universal, Steven Spielberg
Every great music group deserves its own biopic, and Milli Vanilli is no exception. Don't laugh, and don't try to deny you liked "Blame it on the Rain" and "Girl You Know It's True" before the duo was infamously outted as being fakes. I have no problem admitting to still owning the cassette and listening to it for novelty effect every so often. But if you somehow lost your copy, you may look forward to a possible soundtrack to the new film about the group coming soon from Universal.Jeff Nathanson, who previously wrote about a famous fraud for Catch Me If You Can, is working with Fabrice Morvan and the estate of Rob Pilatus in order to script the Milli Vanilli story from their point of view. He is also set to direct the movie. He has his work cut out for him, as it will be difficult to get audiences to accept the duo as a tragic pair and not the joke they still are thought of as. Especially out of respect to Pilatus, who committed suicide in 1998, the tale will have to be told as a serious drama. If it need mock anything, it would do fine to ridicule the pop music industry. But it shouldn't go so far as to treat the guys like victims.
It is hard to tell if Nathanson will pull it off, even with regular Spielberg producer Kathleen Kennedy overseeing things. Nathanson's directorial debut, The Last Shot, wasn't much of a success with critics or audiences, and even if he actually makes a great film about Milli Vanilli, the chances of it appealing to moviegoers might be probably pretty slim. Not everyone is as nostalgic as I am.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
2-15-2007 @ 9:34AM
MB said...
I'm with you on the nostalgia. :)
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2-15-2007 @ 10:35AM
Rich Drees said...
What are they going to call it?
"Blame It On Our Management"?
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2-15-2007 @ 10:36AM
Rich Drees said...
What are they going to call it?
"Blame It On Our Management"?
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2-16-2007 @ 8:45PM
amuelle~ said...
i make my employees listen to milli vanilli at least once a day!!
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2-17-2007 @ 4:54PM
Jodie Rocco said...
Upon hearing the news of Milli Vanilli-The Movie being picked up by Universal, I was both happy and sad. Happy because maybe now the real story will be told which included my twin sister Linda and I as the female part of the group. A lot of what really happened was never published because Frank Farian, the producer and mastermind behind the MV concept, was, as always, in control. Well, he is not in control of this project. That's a good thing. The events leading up to his announcement to the press that Rob and Fab didn't sing involved me, Rob, Fab and their then manager Carsten Hein meeting at the Mirage in November 1990 to discuss how we were going to let the world know that the real members of the group were not going to stay in the background anymore. This included me flying to LA to film the video for the first single off the second album, traveling to Linz Austria where Linda would meet up with us to perform the launch of the single with the boys on Wetten Dass, the biggest TV show in Europe, and the six week promotional tour that would follow. That would be a coup as Linda and I were never allowed to be seen with the boys much less perform with them. Frank was always afraid someone would slip and say something if we were seen to often as a group, because we all knew from the beginning that Rob and Fab were not the voices. When learning that I would be coming to Austria, Frank became furious! Mostly because he was left out. He didn't like to be threatened, especially by a girl. He left me a message that stated if I got off the plane in Linz he would burn the master tape. He called my sister Linda and told her he would blackball her in Europe and she would never work there again. He was beside himself with rage and anger screaming at Linda. I told him nothing was going to stop me from performing with the boys. Three days later, out of fear, he held a press conference. That was the happy part....The sad part is the real story will be distorted and fictionalized to the point of back to square one and duping the public yet again. What people have to understand is that this group consisted of professional and talented artists and musicians. Frank Farian chose the best in Europe to work on this album.
I promise you that what happened in 1990 will not happen a second time. I will rally to the point of distraction; the world will know Linda and Jodie Rocco and the REAL story.
I encourage questions and comments from any and all
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2-19-2007 @ 1:14AM
Karl said...
Well I set back and though about the music we used to listen to... it really meant a lot to me... ;)
I still don't get it. It was still great music.
It's like people knocking 'Garageband' from Apple today. If it's good music, it's good music. Sorry you were duped by the show, Milli Vanilli rocked. Just wish I could get it on iTunes.
A good friend of mine, even after the expose, said that was still one of the most entertaining concerts he had ever been to.
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