Zooey Deschanel's Janis Biopic Is Delayed

BuzzSugar — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:00:53 -0700

It's no secret that PopSugar and I love Zooey Deschanel, and I know the girl can seriously sing. But I'm also a big fan of Janis Joplin, and I'm having a hard time picturing Zooey playing the ill-fated singer in a new biopic, called Gospel According to Janis. I mean, it's not as disconcerting as Kirsten Dunst playing Debbie Harry or anything, and Deschanel has the acting chops to pull it off. Like I said, it's just hard to picture, and I look forward to having my apprehension proven wrong.

Anyway, it will be a while before I get to see results: Deschanel recently revealed that the biopic is delayed. Thankfully, it sounds like it's still going to happen soon, as Deschanel told MTV News:

"[The film's] on hold right now, so I don't know when we're going to start shooting. We were supposed to shoot in November, but it's one of these things [that] seems like it's been hard to get all the money and the rights in place."

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The majority of the musical biography takes place on the day Janis died at age 27 - the same age Deschanel is now - from too much heroin and whiskey. That day, the actress says, is used in the movie as a sort of microcosm for the singer's life. According to the MTV story:

The minds behind the film arrived at this unique approach only after several failed attempts at doing the film with a more traditional narrative, Deschanel said. "I don't think a traditional biopic would capture someone as unique as Janis Joplin. When they first came to me with the project, it was with a different point of view," Deschanel recalled.

I can definitely see Deschanel's point: Janis Joplin just seems too wonderfully off-kilter to be captured by a standard Ray-style life story. And I really look forward to hearing what one of my favorite young actresses does with such great songs. But enough about me; what do you guys think?

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