Tim Sullivan ("2001 Maniacs") is set to write, direct and produce an adaptation of Ray Manzarek's 2002 novel "The Poet in Exile" for his Clubhouse Entertainment production banner reports Variety.
Manzarek was a keyboardist and co-founder of The Doors and the story explores the urban legend that his bandmate Jim Morrison is still alive, having staged his death in 1971. He soon contacts Manzarek from his hiding place in the Seychelles Islands to embark on one final journey of rock 'n' roll rebellion.
Sullivan, "Chillerama" producer Gavin Heffernan and New Mexico poet-author Liz Sullivan co-wrote the script. Sullivan, Heffernan, Brian McCulley, John Crockett, Adam Robitel and Paul Ward will all produce.
Manzarek will produce and score the project and may cameo but will not portray himself in the film. Shooting will kick off next year.
Manzarek was a keyboardist and co-founder of The Doors and the story explores the urban legend that his bandmate Jim Morrison is still alive, having staged his death in 1971. He soon contacts Manzarek from his hiding place in the Seychelles Islands to embark on one final journey of rock 'n' roll rebellion.
Sullivan, "Chillerama" producer Gavin Heffernan and New Mexico poet-author Liz Sullivan co-wrote the script. Sullivan, Heffernan, Brian McCulley, John Crockett, Adam Robitel and Paul Ward will all produce.
Manzarek will produce and score the project and may cameo but will not portray himself in the film. Shooting will kick off next year.
- 10/11/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Tim Sullivan (Driftwood, Chillerama, Vh1.s Scream Queens) has optioned the rights to Doors co-founder Ray Manzarek.s bestselling novel The Poet in Exile. Plans call for a feature film to be written and directed by Sullivan and produced by Manzarek. Sullivan will co-write the script with Chillerama producer and editor Gavin Heffernan (Expiration) and New Mexico poet/author Liz Sullivan (Icons and Outcasts).
Published to strong acclaim, Manzarek.s novel explores the notion .what if. his former band mate, the iconic rock and roll poet and legend Jim Morrison, did indeed stage his death in 1971 (as widely speculated), and now, 40 years later, contacts Manzarek from his hiding place in the Seychelles Islands to embark on one final journey of rock and roll rebellion.
The Doors are not unfamiliar with the celluloid screen. Between Oliver Stone.s epic biopic The Doors and the highly praised documentary When You.re Strange...
Published to strong acclaim, Manzarek.s novel explores the notion .what if. his former band mate, the iconic rock and roll poet and legend Jim Morrison, did indeed stage his death in 1971 (as widely speculated), and now, 40 years later, contacts Manzarek from his hiding place in the Seychelles Islands to embark on one final journey of rock and roll rebellion.
The Doors are not unfamiliar with the celluloid screen. Between Oliver Stone.s epic biopic The Doors and the highly praised documentary When You.re Strange...
- 10/10/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Almost everyone knows a song or two from ’60s psychedelic rock group The Doors, be it “The End,” “Light My Fire,” “Hello, I Love You,” or some other great tune. It’s also entirely possible that you’ve seen Oliver Stone‘s The Doors, a controversial biopic of lead singer Jim Morrison — portrayed there by Val Kilmer in one of his best performances. Many of Morrison‘s friends and family members have often chastised the film for what they feel is the portrayal of a selfish, drug-addled disaster, which they’ve argued as being inaccurate.
With erroneous depictions being a sticking point, it should be interesting to see how they react to The Poet in Exile, a recently-announced adaptation of a novel by Ray Manzarek, who just so happens to be the former Doors keyboardist. His novel presents the popular theory that Morrison faked his own death, then expands upon...
With erroneous depictions being a sticking point, it should be interesting to see how they react to The Poet in Exile, a recently-announced adaptation of a novel by Ray Manzarek, who just so happens to be the former Doors keyboardist. His novel presents the popular theory that Morrison faked his own death, then expands upon...
- 10/10/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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