Shaun Ryder biopic ‘Twisting My Melon’ held up by inventive dispute
Shaun Ryder’s biopic Twisting My Melon has been halted as a result of inventive disputes.
In 2013, ITV introduced it was planning to serialise the Comfortable Mondays frontman’s autobiography Twisting My Melon. Ultimately, Jack O’Connell (Skins) was introduced because the lead actor in 2019.
The movie is written by Matt Greenhalgh, who additionally wrote the script for the Ian Curtis biopic Management, John Lennon‘s origin story Nowhere Boy, and Amy Winehouse‘s Again to Black.
Greenhalgh was set to direct the film as effectively, nonetheless a inventive disagreement with the movie’s American funders has stalled progressed on the movie. Within the newest version of Traditional Pop (through Music News), Ryder stated: “Matt Greenhalgh wrote the script and was gonna direct.
“So we acquired the cash, half-English, half-American and Matt fell out with the Individuals. They didn’t need to make the movie that Matt needed to make. They needed to make a movie like all these different biopics, so it needed to have a sure little bit of this and a sure little bit of that. So the American cash went and all of it went (messed) up actually.
“Matt’s nonetheless engaged on getting it made, in order that’s the place he’s now,” he continued. “In the mean time, he’s simply searching for one other lot of backers.”
Filming was scheduled to begin in Manchester in 2020. Different actors alleged to take part embody Jason Isaacs, who would play Ryder’s father, Maxine Peake, who would act as his mom Linda, and Holliday Grainger as Shaun’s girlfriend.
Christian Bale has beforehand spoken of his love for Ryder, even admitting he’s the musician he’d like to play probably the most in a film.
“He was all the time such an fascinating determine,” he advised NME. “I grew up loving the Comfortable Mondays, so yeah, it’d be a variety of enjoyable to play.”
In different information, Ryder has confessed he’d be “useless” if he hadn’t “blown” his probability at Hollywood fame.