Director Larry Charles Says NC-17 Motley Crüe Film, The Dirt, Isnt Happening. Also, New HBO Series with Kayne West.
Posted on Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 at 5:41 pm by: Hunter Stephenson
The Motley Crüe biopic, The Dirt, is one of those long-fabled projects, complete with dream casting (Chris Walken as Ozzie!) befitting Inglorious Bastards circa 1999, that may never see the darkness of a theater. Borat and Religulous director, Larry Charles, has been attached to helm for some time and tells Coming Soon that his NC-17 vision is probably too nihilistic for Hollywood. The first sentence is a keeper
Motley Crüe is a crappy band but [Neil Strauss] wrote a really epic book about them. Its really fascinating. Whats good about it is how hardcore it is. Theyve killed people, theyve hurt people, theyve crippled people, theyve done all kinds of crazy things. Youd have to show that for real and I think there was a little bit of reticence about doing that ultimately. But for me, I would do it if it could be done the proper way. If its going to be sanitized then they dont need me to do it. They could find somebody else to do that.
Bummer. Wed much rather see Strauss The Dirt developed into a feature than his bestseller The Game, the pick-up-chicks guide favored by every lonely grad student ever. In the meantime, Charles is currently developing a new HBO series in the vein of his Curb Your Enthusiasm for Kayne West. He says this too is facing hurdles
So its like a Kanye and Curb show, its kind of improvised about the situations and stuff. It was really good, but again I think it was too hardcore for HBO. [HBO prexy] Sue Naegle has taken over and I want to show it to her and see how she responds to it.
Larry Charles: not taking off his sunglasses.