Ah, musicians—those brilliant, mercurial creatures who enrich our lives while destroying their own! Biopics about singers have long been Oscar bait (Sissy Spacek for Coal Miner’s Daughter, Jamie Foxx for Ray, and Rami Malek for Bohemian Rhapsody are among the trophy winners), but the number of movies about legends now in the works is truly staggering. The biggest names include Timothée Chalamet, Selena Gomez, Jeremy Allen White, Colman Domingo, and Leonardo DiCaprio, who are playing (or at least hoping to play), Bob Dylan, Linda Ronstadt, Bruce Springsteen, Nat King Cole, and Frank Sinatra, respectively. And just last month, the white whale was landed with the news that Sam Mendes will be directing a four-part feature series about the Beatles, scheduled for release in 2027. Yes, that’s a movie for each of them. We love stories about musicians because they’re full of struggle and scandal, the dark and the light, but these films always require a negotiation with the families and estates about what exactly they’re willing to address in exchange for allowing the music to be used. Today, VF dives in and explains it all.
Elsewhere in our Hollywood coverage today, the musician Ingrid Michaelson talks about adapting the beloved romanceThe Notebook for Broadway; a movie producer says something mean about Sydney Sweeney; Brian Cox says something mean about Joaquin Phoenix; and—why they gotta be so mean?—we explore the poetics of Taylor Swift’s style.
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