In 2023, Cameron Crowe introduced he would direct a Joni Mitchell biopic. Over a 12 months later, he is supplied an replace on the movie:

“I’m super-excited. We’re going to start in by the end of this year and hopefully have it done for Christmas next year,” he just lately informed UCR. “You know, similarly to Heartbreakers Beach Party [the recently re-released Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers film, originally directed by Crowe in 1983], it’s Joni’s life, not through anybody else’s prism. It’s through her prism. It’s the characters who impacted her life that you know and a lot that you don’t know. And the music is so cinematic.”

Crowe defined that he and his manufacturing staff have been working diligently to get the main points proper earlier than filming.

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“I found a lot of the people from her early life, a lot of them are still alive,” he defined. “We’ve talked to them and what it was like to know Joni back then, as opposed to now. She’s the same girl from Saskatoon, you know? She’s got a lot of will and grit. It’s a life with a tale worth telling, filled with great music — and I get out of the way, just like Heartbreakers Beach Party. [Laughs].”

Who Will Play Joni Mitchell?

Details on casting stay to be seen. In July of 2023, it was rumored that Meryl Streep was being eyed to play the older model of Mitchell. Streep just lately appeared on stage at considered one of Mitchell’s live shows in Los Angeles, singing alongside Elton John.

“I don’t know how you do what you do, I just know I need it like food,” Streep stated in a 2022 video message, performed on the MusiCares Person of the Year ceremony the place Mitchell was the recipient. “Ever since we were both young girls. We didn’t know each other, but you sang me into being. You sang my life.”