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Daltrey’s Moon Mission
If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. Just ask Roger Daltrey. The Who frontman says he’s going to write a screenplay about Keith Moon.
Daltrey won’t be the first one taking a stab at bringing the life and times of one of rock’s most acclaimed drummers to the silver screen. At one time “Wayne’s World” director Penelope Spheeris was set to helm a Moon biopic with Mike Myers in the starring role.
But Daltrey rejected the script, and he recently told a British newspaper that a proper Moon film needs to be written by someone a bit closer to the subject material.
“The Keith Moon film depends on someone sitting me down long enough with a writer to get it right,” Daltrey told the Daily Star. “If I sat down for six weeks with a good writer, I could get it done.”
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Looking skyward during The Who’s performance during halftime at Super Bowl XLIV at Sun Life Stadium, Miami Gardens, Fla.
Moon died from a sedative overdose in September 1978. According to Daltrey, previous attempts at turning his late bandmate’s life into a movie lacked a needed “rock ‘n’ roll touch” to accurately portray the bigger-than-life drummer whose reputation for onstage pounding and offstage hotel-room trashing cemented Moon’s reputation as one of rock’s most outrageous characters.
“I’ve got it all in pictures in my head. I know what the film should look like, the way the narrative should be structured,” Daltrey said. “But every time I’ve left a writer to it before now, they say: ‘OK, I see what you mean, I know what you want’ – and then they go off on a complete tangent from what we’ve agreed because they don’t know what it feels like to be in a band.”
Daltrey made the remarks while preparing for The Who appearance at this year’s
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