Michelle Williams is on board to play Janis Joplin in an upcoming biopic.
The 36-year-old actress told E! News that she scored the role of the late rock icon after reports surfaced last month that she was in talks to star in the Sean Durkin-directed film, Janis.
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Durkin's production is based on the 1992 biography, Love, Janis, which was penned by Janis' sister Laura Joplin. The book also served as the basis for a 1990s musical of the same name.
Considered the premiere female blues vocalist of the '60s, Joplin made a splash by joining the band Big Brother and the Holding Company in 1966. Their 1968 album, Cheap Thrills, was a huge hit, but Joplin's biggest album was her second solo project, Pearl, which was released posthumously in 1971.
Joplin died on Oct. 4, 1970, at age 27. Her death was determined to be caused by an accidental overdose...
The 36-year-old actress told E! News that she scored the role of the late rock icon after reports surfaced last month that she was in talks to star in the Sean Durkin-directed film, Janis.
Watch: Michelle Williams Sells Brooklyn Home She Bought with Heath Ledger
Durkin's production is based on the 1992 biography, Love, Janis, which was penned by Janis' sister Laura Joplin. The book also served as the basis for a 1990s musical of the same name.
Considered the premiere female blues vocalist of the '60s, Joplin made a splash by joining the band Big Brother and the Holding Company in 1966. Their 1968 album, Cheap Thrills, was a huge hit, but Joplin's biggest album was her second solo project, Pearl, which was released posthumously in 1971.
Joplin died on Oct. 4, 1970, at age 27. Her death was determined to be caused by an accidental overdose...
- 11/16/2016
- Entertainment Tonight
by Josh Forward
There have been so many rumoured, green lit and delayed productions of a Janis Joplin biopic, it’s nearly impossible to keep track. But we're here to try! Janis was a 60’s superstar, with an iconic voice and an image that was reflective of the counter culture of the times. She also sadly joined the 27 club by a drug overdose.
Her incredible life and talent has been promised on the big screen for decades and the latest announcement has Michelle Williams as Joplin under the direction of Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene). This will be based on Laura Joplin’s book "Love, Janis" made up of real letters from Joplin. This is not to be confused with the delayed version starring Amy Adams directed by Jean-Marc Vallee, halted by legal trouble which was tentatively called Get it While You Can.
But these two productions have actually been competing since the 1990’s.
There have been so many rumoured, green lit and delayed productions of a Janis Joplin biopic, it’s nearly impossible to keep track. But we're here to try! Janis was a 60’s superstar, with an iconic voice and an image that was reflective of the counter culture of the times. She also sadly joined the 27 club by a drug overdose.
Her incredible life and talent has been promised on the big screen for decades and the latest announcement has Michelle Williams as Joplin under the direction of Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene). This will be based on Laura Joplin’s book "Love, Janis" made up of real letters from Joplin. This is not to be confused with the delayed version starring Amy Adams directed by Jean-Marc Vallee, halted by legal trouble which was tentatively called Get it While You Can.
But these two productions have actually been competing since the 1990’s.
- 10/12/2016
- by Josh Forward
- FilmExperience
The story of Janis Joplin has at once fascinated and confounded Hollywood, in equal measure, for decades. The iconic blues vocalist who burst onto the music scene in the 1960s captured the imagination in such a rare way that many have tried to deliver her biopic – and failed. This could be about to change, however, as it is reported that Michelle Williams is in “early talks” to play the titular lead role in Janis.
Janis Joplin shone very bright, but all too briefly as she forged a music career that resulted in just 4 studio albums, released between 1967 and 1971. She built a stellar reputation as an outstanding, captivating live performer, though, and frequently left audiences stunned from 1962, when she really began singing to entertain, and her premature death in 1970. In that fleeting period, she had been the lead singer of Big Brother And The Holding Company, The Kozmic Blues Band, and...
Janis Joplin shone very bright, but all too briefly as she forged a music career that resulted in just 4 studio albums, released between 1967 and 1971. She built a stellar reputation as an outstanding, captivating live performer, though, and frequently left audiences stunned from 1962, when she really began singing to entertain, and her premature death in 1970. In that fleeting period, she had been the lead singer of Big Brother And The Holding Company, The Kozmic Blues Band, and...
- 10/11/2016
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
Actor in talks for Sean Durkin’s film based on Laura Joplin’s correspondence-based memoir Love, Janis
Michelle Williams is in early talks to take on the role of rock icon Janis Joplin in a new biopic directed by Sean Durkin, the director of Martha Marcy May Marlene.
The film, titled Janis, is based the singer’s sister Laura Joplin’s book Love, Janis, which uses the singer’s letters to track her life from the coffee house roots of her career through to Woodstock, when she struggled with alcohol and drug addiction to cope with her sudden celebrity.
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Michelle Williams is in early talks to take on the role of rock icon Janis Joplin in a new biopic directed by Sean Durkin, the director of Martha Marcy May Marlene.
The film, titled Janis, is based the singer’s sister Laura Joplin’s book Love, Janis, which uses the singer’s letters to track her life from the coffee house roots of her career through to Woodstock, when she struggled with alcohol and drug addiction to cope with her sudden celebrity.
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- 10/11/2016
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Michelle Williams is in early talks to portray Janis Joplin in a big-screen biopic, a role that has attracted and disappointed a very long list of actresses going back decades. This particular project — Janis, based on the book Love, Janis that inspired the stage musical of that name — has director Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene) attached and at one time was to star Nina Arianda. The Love, Janis book, written by Joplin’s sister Laura Joplin and built around a…...
- 10/11/2016
- Deadline
Michelle Williams is in early negotiations to portray Janis Joplin in Sean Durkin’s long-in-the-works biopic centering on the 1960s rock icon. The project, titled Janis, is based on Love, Janis, a book penned by the late singer's sister, Laura Joplin, which uses Janis’ letters to family and friends to tell the story of a young woman rising from playing at coffeehouses to performing at Woodstock and dealing with sudden fame and celebrity while combating alcohol and heroin addiction, all the while trying to keep her creativity. Joplin died in 1970 at the age of 27 from a
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- 10/7/2016
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
An amazing talent gone way too soon, Janis Joplin is more than her boozy, brash public image. This bio docu has the personal background and the insights of those her knew, plus the Texas and San Francisco context in the Rock breakout of the late 1960s. Janis: Little Girl Blue DVD Filmrise / Mvd 2015 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 105 min. / Street Date May 6, 2016 / 19.95 Starring Janis Joplin, Cat Power (voice), Peter Albin, Melissa Etheridge, Clive Davis, Laura Joplin, Michael Joplin, D.A. Pennebaker, Kris Kristofferson, Country Joe McDonald, Dick Cavett.. Cinematography Francesco Carrozzini, Jenna Rosher Film Editors Mark Harrison, Maya Hawke, Billy McMillin, Garret Price, Brendan Walsh Produced by Amy J. Berg, Alex Gibney, Katherine LeBlond, Jeff Jampol Directed by Amy J. Berg
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Janis: Little Girl Blue is an entertaining and emotionally affecting bio-film about the noted singer and songwriter, whose rise to fame in the San Francisco scene of the...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Janis: Little Girl Blue is an entertaining and emotionally affecting bio-film about the noted singer and songwriter, whose rise to fame in the San Francisco scene of the...
- 4/30/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
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