News arrived Thursday that a German company is planning a biopic based on the time Iggy Pop and David Bowie (and one assumes Brian Eno!) spent living and recording in West Berlin in the mid-70s, which brought the world such masterpieces as Low and Lust For Life. Two albums which seem to exist in opposite universes from each other and ourselves
While Low is one of the strangest and most innovative albums of its tome (light years ahead of Heroes and Lodger), brooding fragments of sound and vision that echoes and reverberates today, Lust For Life was an ultimate Iggy Pop album with an ambient blur of sound. It looked and felt like an Iggy Pop album but it was really a pop art with attitude.
According to Cinema Blend: "Gabriel Range, responsible for the controversial Death of a President and I Am Slave, will be directing from a script by screenwriter Robin French, a playwright who currently writes for Andy Samberg’s British hippy comedy Cuckoo," I remember the controversy surrounding Death Of A President, the fictional (foh) movie about the assassination of President Bush the W.
So I expect two things here.
1. They get to use Bowie songs (since he leased em out decades ago)
2. It will be a glorious attempt to recreate West Berlin in the late 1970s.
3. There will be plenty of cocaine (so let's hope it is in black and white).
4. Iggy and Bowie will tongue kiss.
5. Eno will have hair.
6. It will be very very serious.
7. There will be a girl.
8. Bowie and Eno will sit behind a sound board and lower the volume.
9. It will end with Bowie dressed as a fascist leader on a train to London.
10. Neither Sid Vicious nor Elvis Presley will be represented but Sid's hamster might.