Would make for a very dramatic story with three major death scenes.
Grateful Dead - Focus on the early years, acid tests, Haight-Ashbury, Altamont, Europe 72, Pigpen dies.
there is a mini series on Amazon for them already in case you missed it.
I have another one The Velvet Underground. Rami Malek would be perfect playing Lou Reed, Adam Driver as John Cale and Lena Dunham as Maureen "Moe" Tucker.
I wouldn't mind a Henry Rollins biopic. Mostly because I would love to see who would play him. But his "Get in the Van" days could make a good film. I'd love to see Sean (Tangerine, Florida Project) Baker film it. He's got the style to make a great punker road-movie.
Not one mention of The Beatles yet? I think that would be interesting despite knowing a lot of the band’s history already. I’d be curious more than anything to see who would be cast. If not a full on Beatles film maybe one about Lennon post-Beatles to his death.
I assume that has to be a movie someday or would the music licensing fees for these musicians becomes too expensive to make a movie about their lives and careers?
How about a Seattle Grunge doc covering the big 5?
A long time joke movie proposal I've had is "Girl You Know It's True: The Milli Vanilli Story". I heard someone was actually working on a movie about them.
I'd watch a biopic about any favorite 80s band, like Duran Duran. A documentary about Sparks is being worked on right now, can't wait for that.
Wasn't there a TV movie about him done?
I'm gonna go with Billy Joel.
LOTS of drama there...he is/was a nasty SOB.
Going in another direction: J.S. Bach.
AFAIK, there has never been a major biography of him done.
Again, lots of drama to be mined.
I would rather see a good Documentary then a Biopic for any band.
Yeah, I would assume that getting the rights to use any Beatles music would be a big thing holding up a film about them. I also don't know if Paul and Ringo or the estates of John and George would ever sign off on it. I think it seems pretty natural given how popular they remain to this day, but I don't expect it to ever happen.
I was going to say Mayhem and the whole early 90's Norwegian black metal scene but that's already happened with Lords of Chaos (I was kind of worried about how bad it might turn out but it seems to be getting pretty positive reviews so far). Not only Mayhem, but according to the cast list, other musicians who were/are a part of the scene like Faust, Fenriz, Blackthorn, etc. are also portrayed in it.
Not that I'm aware of. Also Wikipedia lists that several documentaries failed to make it to the big screen.
Don't you mean Bryan Adams?
After reading their book, Motley Crue seems like it might be a good one. They're crazy.
But I think a Michael Jackson biopic would be interesting.
I'm pretty sure the movie based on their book will be coming out on Netflix in the next few months.