MrPryck2U
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The thing about biopics that people rarely get right is they needn't cover an entire person's life. Tell a chunk of a story, not the whole thing. Then you can do it some proper justice.
When I was in college I took a course on the genre and we had to pitch a biopic at the end. Mine was based on the book Until the End of the World. That would make a badass movie, even if a lot of it is a touch fabricated.
Now I have a different story in mind, and I'm thinking about actually trying my hand at a screen play
With a band that's been around as long as U2, there could probably be 3 different movies based on their career. One could cover their formation to The Joshua Tree. Another could cover their 90's run. Then another one could cover their life as aging rock stars in the 21st Century. But, a documentary is better suited for U2. Kind of like From the Sky Down.
Artists like Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, and James Brown, as far as I know, never really had a good documentary about them. So, biopics were good for telling their story.
Backbeat is really the only good Beatles biopic and that focuses mostly on their formation and early years before worldwide fame hit them. The Compleat Beatles was a good documentary, but, obviously, the Anthology is the definitive one.