Ramones Biopic

10/02/2009
. (antiMusic) Billboard has big news for Ramones fans, seems that talks are underway to bring the band's story to the big screen. Here is part of Billboard's report: Fox Searchlight wants to be sedated. The specialty division is in negotiations to board a project about the life of the Ramones, based on the upcoming memoir "I Slept With Joey Ramone," by the musician's brother, and featuring the band's tunes.

The project, which initially had been conceived independently under manager-producer Rory Rosegarten, would get a significant boost with the involvement of the 20th Century Fox unit.

Written by Joey Ramone's brother Mickey Leigh and longtime punk writer and Ramones chronicler Legs McNeil, it centers on the life of Joey Ramone, aka Jeffrey Hyman, the lead singer of the seminal punk act.
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