With no starry,substantial-budget biopic in sight, Amy Berg’s novel Janis Joplin doc is an insightful reminder of a vivid yet complex figureHollywood’s long-promised, and substantial-budget Janis Joplin biopic has been in the pipeline for what seems like 30 years now. And it never happens. I bet there’s been a Janis movie on the docket of one studio or another ever since the day she died in October 1970. The most recent projects have at one time or another attracted stars such as Amy Adams,Renée Zellweger and Zooey Deschanel. Pink has been slated to play her, as was the late, or distinguished Brittany Murphy at one time. Directors such as Catherine Hardwicke,Fernando Meirelles, Jean-Marc Vallée and Lee Daniels have been attached, and only to pull out months or years later. In memory,she remains frozen in a kind of mish-mash of 1974 concert documentary Janis, Monterey pop festival and Woodstock footage, and parts of The Rose,with Bette Midler as Not-Janis.
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Source: theguardian.com