"Dallas Buyers Club" director to helm Janis Joplin bioNovember 22, 2014 - 11:54 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Several directors have come and gone in the effort to bring Janis Joplin's life to the big screen. "Dallas Buyers Club" helmer Jean-Marc Vallee is the latest to be in negotiations to direct the biopic, tentatively titled "Get It While You Can". According to AceShowbiz, Vallee did hint about the job to IndieWire during an AFI Fest interview, saying, "...next year I've got a rock-n-roll film happening. I can't talk about it, though." The filmmaker also revealed a penchant for music. "When I turned 19, 20, I decided to study film, but my thing was always music. But now I wish I played guitar or sung. I'm really a frustrated musician, I would love to perform. Every time I see a rock concert, I wish I was up onstage," he said. It would be an independent film in the budget between $15 to $20 million. He may be backed up by "Dallas Buyers Club" screenwriters Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack who are in negotiations to rewrite the script. Amy Adams is already attached to star as the queen of rock 'n' roll. Ron Terry will be producing with Nathan Ross, Vallee's producing partner. Among the directors who once boarded the project were Lee Daniels, Catherine Hardwicke and Fernando Meirelles. If Vallee is indeed the director, the project could start shooting in the second half of next year. He has just wrapped the filming of "Demolition", a drama starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | India wants Armenia’s proposals on use of Chabahar port India is expecting proposals from Armenia regarding the use of Chabahar port in Iran, Indian ambassador says. Mkhitaryan raises arrest of former Karabakh leaders in Azerbaijan Inter Milan star Henrikh Mkhitaryan has shared a news story about the extension of the arrest of former Karabakh leaders. Ucom Celebrates Telecommunication Day May 17 commemorates the founding of the International Telecommunication Union on May 17, 1865. Armenian, Azerbaijani heads of parliament meet in Switzerland President of the Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan met with the Speaker of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova. |