Do we all remember the news of the biopic for pre-punk, British pub-rock star Ian Dury titled, “Sex & Drugs and Rock N’ Roll” (the title of his most famous song; yes, he coined that phrase).
As we reported in April, Andy Serkis, erstwhile CGI-facialist for Peter Jackson (Golem in the “LOTR”series, “King Kong”) is playing Dury and the supporting cast — Ray Winstone, Olivia Williams, Naomie Harris, Noel Clarke, Toby Jones, MacKenzie Crook and Bill Milner — is rather excellent.
Well, Hollywood North Report (via Jeff Wells) has our first look as Serkis onstage as Dury. The film was directed by BAFTA-nominee, Mat Whitecross (the director of “The Road to Guantanamo,” and an editor on the excellent rock doc “Scott Walker: 30 Century Man”) and the screenplay was penned by Paul Viragh. Apparently this one is in the can and in post-production. So we’ll likely see it next year, but hopefully it doesn’t disappear like another U.K. esoteric rock figure biopic did — “Telstar” based on the life of Joe Meek which basically came and went without a trace (whether it even got a U.S. release; doesn’t seem like anyone bothered to release it here).