Tuesday 27 January 2015

Motley Crue Biopic 'The Dirt' Moves Forward With New Production Company

Also, Vince Neil hints final party of the band

The biopic Mötley Crüe 'The Dirt' is advancing Focus Images behind him.


After a year of little news about the movie, the biopic of Mötley Crüe Dirt may finally be on its way out of purgatory Hollywood. Focus Features has picked up the film and has started development on it, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The company is also holding Jeff Tremaine (Jackass, Bad Grandpa) as its director and is working with the script writer Rich Wilkes xXx wrote Californication creator Tom Kapinos adapted to sandy band, 2.001 shocking memoir, The Dirt: Confessions of the most Notorious rock Band in the world. The production company will begin its search for actors in the near future.



CRUE members have long been vocal about their desire to see the film finally reach the big screen. The film Director David Fincher Girl Gone was previously connected to Paramount and Fight Club.

"I always believe that is a cross between Goodfellas and perhaps Boogie Nights," said Nikki Sixx in an interview with Rolling Stone in 2011 after leaving a deal with MTV Films. After reading through writing, Tommy Lee told Billboard that he anticipated a grade of "triple R" for the film. "I was like, 'What the fuck? That's crazy,'" he said. "This movie is crazy. Even just the way the movie begins, you're like, and ‘how the hell are we to rate this?'"

In other news Crue singer Vince Neil joked the possibility of a series of official final shows to take place where they were formed in Los Angeles. Talking to Las Vegas Sun about her new arena football team, the Outlaws Las Vegas, Neil expressed hope that the band to return to the Sunset Strip last time. "I hope we can have our final afterparty at the Whisky a Go Go on the Sunset Strip where we started 34 years ago, if it has not been demolished by then," he said. "It would be a suitable place to celebrate the beginning and the end."

In August last year, Neil had expressed similar desires in an interview with Rolling Stone. "[The Whisky a Go Go is] the only place to end it," he said. "I hope we do on 17 January 2016. It will be our 35th anniversary".

The band has not yet confirmed plans farewell, but its members have an ad for your next scheduled appearance on Fox & Friends on Tuesday, January 20 and will probably reveal new plans during his appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon 22 January. The band previously signed a "cease-tours" which will be enacted by the end of 2015. On its website, the only dates set for 2015 are the dates of February in Asia and June dates in Europe.