There are many stories in history that consistently make people ask, “How come this person’s story hasn’t been made into a movie yet?” The term “life imitates art” is particularly true with these biopics, illustrating the tales of some of history’s most remarkable individuals, and none are more popular than ones about legendary musical talents.
Just this past year, we finally got a proper chronicling of the King of Rock Roll thanks to director Baz Luhrmann with Elvis (2022) and got a self-satire of musical biopics with the ingeniously on-the-nose Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022).
There are certainly plenty more historical figures set to get the feature film treatment from now until the end of time but come later next year, we’ll be getting a musician biopic that will take audiences all the way back to the seventeenth century.
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