Cash grabs aside, I really enjoy a good biopic. I’m between David Bowie and Michael Jackson

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    As a Canadian, I’ve been hoping for a Stan Roger’s biopic but I know that’s pretty niche. He was a folk singer who started making some waves when he died in a cabin fire on an Air Canada flight coming back from Texas to Canada in 1983 when he was only 33. His songs became part of the Canadian music tradition, as he generally wrote songs based on Canadian topics and issues. Most recently there were some fun clips of Stephen Colbert asking some guests if they knew any of his songs, like Michael Buble (who as a Canadian did indeed) and Jack White (who somewhat surprisingly also did, but is less surprising when you know that two of his grandparents were born and raised in Nova Scotia). Stan’s brother Garnett Rogers wrote a phone book-sized memoir of their time on the road touring that has plenty of material to pull from, and I always figured it would make a great music biopic, at least for Canadians. Our own Walk the Line or Ray.

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    Someone whose first name isn’t interesting enough to be the title, I’m fucking sick of it.

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    Unfortunately I doubt MJ will ever get one. Half of the people think he’s the devil and half heard that they said it was all fabricated

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    Although not his biggest fan, but Bono has had quite an interesting life so far.

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    Ordinary biopics are so anti-Bowie though.

    The only film Iman and his kids have been down with was the excellent Moonage Daydream which really did do him justice.

    I wouldn’t mind seeing a biopic of Richard Butler from Psychedelic Furs.