Christopher Walken To Play Ozzy Osbourne In "The Dirt"
Band Photo: Ozzy Osbourne (?)
Motley Crue lead singer Vince Neil told ABC News Radio in an exclusive interview that the 63-year-old Oscar-winning actor will make a cameo appearance as Osbourne in "The Dirt," a movie based on the band's controversial 2001 autobiography.
"How funny is that going to be," Neil told ABC's Al Mancini at the Opening of Vince Neil Ink, the singer's new tattoo parlor in Las Vegas.
Walken's press representatives did not immediately return a call to ABCNEWS.com for comment.
"The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band" set new limits in tell-all confessionals. The 448-page tome catalogues the drug and alcohol abuse, nasty infighting, and sex parties of Neil and band mates Tommy Lee, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx.
The film, announced in April, is now in preproduction and is expected to be released in 2008 by Paramount and MTV. It's been billed as a true-life version of "This Is Spinal Tap."
Osbourne toured with Motley Crue and was friends with the band, and his antics, as recounted in the book, include snorting a line of live ants (while looking for a fix of cocaine) and taking LSD every day for a year "just to see what would happen."
Neil says that other stars are going to appear in the film as rock stars, including Val Kilmer as David Lee Roth. "We're doing big, giant cameos with those people," he says.
As for Neil and his Crue, they'll be played by unknowns.
Source: Ozzyhead.com
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22 Comments on "Christopher Walken To Play Ozzy Osbourne"
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9. writes:
what a crock of sh**. these f***ing sellout old glam metal pieces of sh** first wrote a book and now they are making a movie. Yes let's just celebrate the fact that they are loser heroin addicts and can't play real metal like nile, slayer, morbid angel, or suffocation.
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22. writes:
I don't see anything wrong with them making a movie or writing a book to be honest. Fact of the matter is, they are no longer the heroes of the youth, I think they'll be the first to admit that, but they are legends. And when you reach the status that they have, they can do whatever they want. Ozzy and Ted Nugent still rock despite the reality show crap. Bruce d***inson has done documentaries and seat belt safety adverts and written books. Rob Zombie's made movies. The Exploited have better stage effects than most other punk bands and all this is because these bands have earned the acolade of legends and no matter how many kids you see in Misfits shirts, the heroes of yester-year will never be the heroes of today, so they can do what they want to at least make the youth more aware of them. And frankly, if Motley Crue wanna do that by writing a book and making a film then I say let 'em.... I probably won't watch it though! Hahaha!
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1. Chupacabra_hunter writes:
I could play Tommy Lee....