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Dakota Fanning to Rock Out in Joan Jett Movie

BuzzSugar — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:30:36 -0800

She's not playing Joan Jett herself - that role has gone to Kristen Stewart - but Dakota Fanning is in talks to join the cast of The Runaways as the lead singer of Jett's all-girl band. Here's more:

At 15, Fanning is the same age [Cherie] Currie was when she made her debut with the Runaways as the lead singer who belted out hard-edged tunes like "Cherry Bomb." Currie became caught up in drugs and a hard-partying lifestyle.

Now, I know Fanning has done dark stuff as she's gotten older and moved away from some of the precious little girl roles, but a hard-partying rocker? I'll be very curious to see how this turns out. In general, I'm fascinated by Fanning's career as she transitions into adulthood as it's a rocky path that not every actor seems to be able to navigate. Do you think Fanning is able to pull off these heavier, tougher roles?

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Kristen Stewart to Play Joan Jett in Runaways Biopic

BuzzSugar — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:30:47 -0800

In 2009, Kristen Stewart will shift between playing teen vampire lover Bella in the Twilight sequels and portraying influential rocker Joan Jett in The Runaways. Stewart has been cast as Jett for the rock 'n' roll biopic all about the all-girl band from the '70s. The Hollywood Reporter has more details:

The Runaways were hugely influential as the first successful all-girl hard rock band; its members included guitarists Jett and Lita Ford, drummer Sandy West, singer-keyboardist Cherie Currie and bassist Jackie Fox. The band was brought together in late 1975 by impresario Kim Fowley, who thought a novelty act of teenaged girls performing in leather and lace would be an easy sell, but the girls ended up proving to be serious and influential musicians with songs like "Cherry Bomb." The band lasted about four years together, falling apart over management and money issues.

Jett continued her rock career into the '80s, forming the Blackhearts and scoring with such hits as "I Love Rock N' Roll" and "I Hate Myself for Loving You." She continues to record and tour.

The film will revolve around Jett and Currie and follow them from the band's meteoric rise as teenagers to their dissolution and disillusionment.

The real Joan Jett will act as executive producer on the film. Can you see Kristen Stewart rocking out as Joan Jett? Is there anyone else who could have been given this role?

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Joan Jett to Star in 1980s Indie Teen Comedy

BuzzSugar — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:15:39 -0700

Not content to sit back and be a legendary voice on the radio ("I love rock 'n roll/ So put another dime in the juke box, baby!"), Joan Jett is currently signed on to make some appearances on the big screen. Most notably she has just agreed to star in Endless Bummer (clearly a play on the title of the 1966 surfing documentary The Endless Summer), a story that "centers on the theft of a surfboard from a Ventura beach in the summer of 1984, leading its anguished owner and his misfit friends to drive to the San Fernando Valley to recover it."

I can't wait for this. A comedy - especially an indie movie - set in the 1980s has a lot of potential for fun, kitschy references and, of course, a killer soundtrack. In fact, according to Variety, the soundtrack will apparently "include modern renditions of '80s tunes recorded by Vans Warped Tour artists, who have included Joan Jett and the Blackhearts."

Radical.

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