ALSO FILMING
…a new MARTIN SCORSESE (right) documentary project will focus on the 1970s New York City music scene. Known for his use of The Rolling Stones and girl groups to soundtrack some of his landmark films – The Clash had a fleeting cameo as “street scum” in 1983’s The King Of Comedy, of course – Scorsese’s name was linked to a Ramones doc
in 2016… Ron Howard is making a documentary about LOUIS ARMSTRONG with the help of the jazz great’s Educational Foundation. Accordingly, the majority of the audio, film footage and photography that exists will be available to him, as well as Armstrong’s personal diaries and the daily audio recordings he made on reel-to-reel tape from the ’50s until his death in 1971… Edgar Wright continues to finesse
his career-wide SPARKS documentary, which promises footage from Ron and Russell Mael’s 2018 London date, archival film and interviews with eminent admirers… producer Graham King is developing biopics for the BEE GEES and MICHAEL JACKSON; Queen/
Elton fixer Dexter
Fletcher wants to dramatise the life of
MADONNA, while Alice Cooper’s desire to be played by Johnny Depp might possibly be cooled by Depp’s recent legal difficulties… it’s rumoured that
Bernard MacMahon’s impending official
LED ZEPPELIN (left) documentary, which will cover the group’s career from their founding until 1970, will be titled Apollo… a biopic of COSI FANNI TUTTI, based on her memoir Art Sex Music, will be directed by Andrew
Hulme. Casting for the lead took place in November…