It what sounds like a ludicrously bad idea, Angryfilms is teaming with Bellport Pictures to produce “Slide” a fictional indie drama about two gangsters who while desperately trying to get away from a mob boss they double-crossed, inadvertently kidnapping a late-career, drug addicted Jimi Hendrix.
Because the film is being positioned as a road movie and not a biopic, rights issues won’t be a concern, but don’t hold your breath expecting to hear his music in the film — none of it will be featured in the film.
Carol Bell of Bellport is used to dancing around protective estates as she did with “The Cat’s Meow,” Peter Bogdanovich’s picture about William Randolph Heart, Marion Davis and the death of Thomas Ince. And like that film, this one probably won’t be worth your time and or, it’ll come out on the very-limited release side.
So if you’re a huge Hendrix fan and are worried this film will tarnish his reputation. It feels unlikely, unless playing late nights on IFC after the fact is your idea of legacy blemish.
A proper Hendrix biopic is currently in the works from Legendary pictures (“The Hangover,” “The Dark Knight, “Watchmen,” “Where The Wild Things Are”).