Anyone else like to see a Fleetwood Mac movie?
 

I apologize if this has been discussed before, I'm new here. Do I need to earn my place? Lol


I'm surprised this hasn't already happened. A movie about Fleetwood Mac. It could be good if it's rated R and they have someone awesome making the movie, like Oliver Stone or Martin Scorsese or Baz Lurhman.

I would want to see a great ensemble cast. The actors should all be late 20s - early 30s. I'm a Rumours era purist, 1975-1987. Their old stuff is great too, but Fleetwood Mac is Lindsey, Christine, Stevie, John, and Mick. So I would like the majority of the movie be about that, like have the movie start with John, Mick, and Christine moving to LA. I also want to see a realistic portrayal of all the cocaine and alcohol. Good ole sex, drugs, and rock n roll.

I'm still pondering a cast. Anyone have any suggestions?

Welcome!

I think Reese Witherspoon would play Stevie

Jared Leto as Lindsey :)

Ari Graynor as Christine
Amber Heard as Stevie

But for Christine, John, and Mick, we have to take British accents into account.

Gawd! A Mac movie, It probably would just piss me off. Their history is amazing, and should be a movie, But....I love them so much and the real story would probably never translate onscreen close to the real thang. I'm just too attached to them, know too much about them to adjust to the "Artistic dramatic recreations and hollywood movie BS".
......but ofcoarse I'd watch it so we all could bit@h about it here on the ledge...:lol:

Exactly. I had a friend who loved Gilbert and Sullivan and he told me that that was that fan group's goal in life, to see the productions and find the flaws.

Michele

6 Biopics That Hollywood Should Make Next


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5. Fleetwood Mac

Who Should Star: Mae Whitman as Stevie NicksrWhat do you think?

Imagine all the conflict in Johnny Cash’s life, and multiply it by the five members of the original Fleetwood Mac. It’s a story wrought with the drugs, sex, and rock and roll of any musician biopic, but Fleetwood is really the conflicting band to end them all. During production for Rumours, the album that made them the rock legends they are today, no one was even speaking to each other thanks to a host of “who slept with who doing what drugs”-related problems. In that discord, they created ballads we’re still singing along to today.rWhat do you think?

You may recognize Whitman as Ann Veal from Arrested Development and most recently as Amber Holt on NBC’s Parenthood. In doing so you also may realize she’s a dead ringer for Fleetwood’s lead singer Stevie Nicks — here’s hoping she knows how to sing.


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Surprised it hasn't happened as it would give them yet another reason to do another "Rumours" reissue...The "Rumours" Soundtrack.

No No No and an extra No. I do not want to see a biopic with look alike actors.....I have my fantastic memories of this most fabulous band in my head (and photos etc). Why would you want to watch a film about them when they are still with us larger than life.

So true. :lol:

Anyway, I think James Marsden or even Bradley Cooper could play Lindsey. Alison Lohman for Stevie. Cate Blanchett would've been a perfect choice for Christine, but she might be a bit old now. Geoffrey Rush would make a great modern-day Mick.

Jared Leto HAS to be Lindsey. Gorgeous, musically talented, dark-haired with stunning blue eyes. What more could you ask for? :xoxo: Bradley Cooper is NOT cute, and he's a "swole bro." No. Just, no. :sorry:

I have strong feelings on this. I think in film history there's never been a great film on the music business. This shouldn't be a biopic, this should be about the band. How they came together, how they drifted apart....there's a great article about how it was making Tusk, the time when everyone had their own entourages and it would be hard to talk to each other. This shouldn't be a Rumours only thing...but should take us through a few decades. Ending with either The Dance or Lindsey coming onstage to play Landslide with Stevie and Christine. Songs should be featured, probably having the actors lip-synch. But there should also be new arrangements, particularly instrumental or piano so it's not just song after song after song. It would also be a good chance to highlight lesser known songs: I'm think Why and Storms for sure. There's potential, but it needs to be in the right hands with a good director who's given freedom by the band to tell a genuine and compelling story...not whitewashing (I want to see the Tango fight, getting physical), not making **** up (the material is inherently dramatic).

I think Vera Farmiga that is going to be playing Christine for the Dennis Wilson Biopic is a good choice.
For young Stevie I would like to see Shailene Woodley.

Hell no!

The thought of seeing actors recreating Fleetwood Mac's Rumours era is an interesting and entertaining, yet cringe-worthy notion. I can't imagine that any of the band members would be pleased seeing themselves being portrayed and characterized by actors, as particular incidents from their past are dramatized. Nor do I see any of them wanting any involvement with such a tabloid-like undertaking. It could be their Spinal Tap, with their personalities perceived as parody.

Since the narrative would likely focus on the most dramatic moments in their history, it would just be another form/expansion of the ceaseless pandering Stevie has sustained for thirty-something years. It sounds like a cheesy/soppy project someone might attempt 20 years from now, when all members of the band dead or too old to care.

As a matter of reverence, and integrity, wouldn't be more preferable to have a serious, comprehensive documentary featuring the scope of the band's entire history, with real footage, and real people (band members, producers, associates, friends and family etc...)? I would like a big scholarly book about them (and their individual back stories), penned by a talented and informed scribe.

(Sue understands. Hi Sue!).

That whole movie was scrapped.
I think Alison Lohman is the best choice to portray Stevie circa 1977 because of the physical resemblance plus she's a good actress, but unfortunately she quit acting.
Reese Witherspoon is just a terrible choice, I wish that Stevie never brought it up.
Suki Waterhouse also resembles young Stevie but I have no idea if she's a decent actress.

I dont think a biopic movie would work particularly well. Those that have been made always end up trying to cram too much into too short a period of time. As a fan I end up having to stop myself from screaming at the screen as they tend to be factually inaccurate or just not make proper sense.

I dont even think a full movie set during a small time period (1975-1979) would properly do justice to their stories.

I think it would be ideal for a mini-series though.
Would love to see;
Episode 1: The Blues years 1967-1970
Episode 2: Transition 1970-1974
Episode 3: Making it big 1975-1978
Episode 4: Indulgence 1978-1984
Episode 5: The Come Back 1985-1990
Episode 6: Whatever's left 1990-onwards

I like that idea a lot actually. The only problem is, from a storytelling point of view, you really can't leave it until episode three to introduce essentially the two main characters of the story.

Hum.Some of the actors names mentioned are unknowns to me.
Thats what happens when yours truly disconnect with the current world of Hollywood."More likely 25 years or so".


We got to remember FM is not a overrated band or artists like some others are.

Fan would love to see a movie or a teleflix about their favorite band but they will pick the movie to pieces and find errors with the film.

Sissy Spacek could play the current Stevie.

It's not impossible doing a movie about a long career such as that that of Fleetwood Mac.
I wouldn't be disappointed even if it was a movie just recounting a determined piece of their history, the only condition is that it should be a GOOD movie.
There are a lot of good rock biopics, for example "I'm not there" about Bob Dylan, "Ray" about Ray Charles, "Walk the line" about Johnny Cash, "The doors" etc.

No, Mick & John were pretty much there at the beginning.

That said, I'm sick to DEATH of the very NOTION that Lindsey & Stevie are the "be all, end all" of Fleetwood Mac. Every GD time somebody posts something like "essentially the two main characters", I go ballistic. :mad:

The only reason that they're even IN the band is money, not "artistic value". Because once they joined, Fleetwood Mac stopped being "creative".


Speaking of Walk The Line, Joaquin Phoenix as Peter Green.

Like "I'm Not There", they could also have multiple actors play the members at various stages of their lives. Like for Lindsey, have Bradley Cooper for the White Album/Rumours era, Glenn Howerton for the Tusk/Mirage era, Paul Rudd for the post Tango era, etc.

It would be the Fleetwood Mac Story, not the Buckingham Nicks Story!

That said, I suppose you could open with them taking the stage in Minneapolis. A teary eyed Mick Fleetwood would then go into flashback mode and reminisce starting with his first meeting with Peter.

In fact, each episode could start with a different song being played live at Minneapolis before Mick thinks back to a different period in time.

Or would that be too cheesy?

You can have parallel narratives… show FM with PG and what's going on with them, and in alternating scenes show what's going on in San Francisco with this band Fritz and their two members who break away and move to LA as a duo and their failed record etc… show what FM was doing in, say, 1971 and show what BN was doing in 1971 and the series of events and decisions along these two paths over a few years that inevitably lead to those paths crossing in late 1974 at Sound City.

That could work, but I would still argue that you would need to have them meet at the end of the first episode. Look, I'm as big a fan of the pre-BN stuff as anyone, and any director and writer worth their salt would make it so that it was Mick and John who were the two 'anchors' of any story.
However, I'm just being realistic here. It would probably be made to appeal to the common denominator - who are the two people in the band most people (not us) care about? Stevie and Lindsey. Any movie or telly show that was going to ever get off the ground would have that pair as the two leads. It sucks, but what can you do?

Yes! :lol:

Hmmm. And leave out The Bluesbreakers, the recruitment of Danny Kirwan, Black Magic Woman, Oh Well, Man of the World, reaching number 1 in the UK with Albatross, recording at Chess Records, Then Play On, the Munich incident, Peter Green leaving, Christine McVie joining, Kiln House, Bob Welch joining... etc.
Just cut to 1971? Perhaps a movie should be made about just the first 3 years of the band.
Shame Richard E Grant is getting on a bit. I'm thinking of him in Withnail and I and picturing him as a young Mick Fleetwood.

Aaron Taylor Johnson as Lindsey?

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you misunderstood my post. I picked 1971 as a random example, not as an actual recommendation. I was just saying you could have Stevie and Lindsey in the story long before the 3rd episode (the original complaint) by weaving in the stories of the separate threads of FM and BN until the point they meet up. Pick 1967, pick 1972, pick 1969…… just pick somewhere to start.


Originally Posted by bombaysaffires View Post
You can have parallel narratives… show FM with PG and what's going on with them, and in alternating scenes show what's going on in San Francisco with this band Fritz and their two members who break away and move to LA as a duo and their failed record etc… show what FM was doing in, say, 1971 and show what BN was doing in 1971 and the series of events and decisions along these two paths over a few years that inevitably lead to those paths crossing in late 1974 at Sound City.

Fair enough. In that case I offer my apologies- it didnt read like that to me.

All very great talking points about a movie that, no doubt, would be entitled something similar to what The Eagles have just, only just done.

The History of Fleetwood Mac : Secrets, Lies and Sexy (sleaze).

But, to my way of thinking, yes of course that would and could be a great "by the fans/Ledge and for the fans"-style movie, think, Kickstarter launch analogous to the Veronica Mars Film.

So, yeah, can be done, but the band would be relying on us hardcore/Ledge fans to, y'know - subsidise the great risk that it would be a bomb at the box office for the centre fanbase who see F. Mac as "A/C"/adult contemporaries.

SO?

Yes, a Fleetwood Mac movie would and does work. They did it for Tusk. They did it for Destiny Rules

but,

IT NEEDS A NEW ALBUM TO PUSH IT - FORWARD TO Actually, mAKE SOME MONEY!!!!!!!!!

Yes .I was thinking of a miniseries format on MTV/VH1.It would fit into their schedules great 20 plus years ago when the channels were good a were playing music vids and docu's without the current reality BS shows and other unrelated to music programs they all air now.

Since this would be a product of Hollywood and profit oriented the story will probably focus on Stevie and
Lindsey and their rise from obscurity and how they changed FM from a mediocre blues band into one of the biggest pop bands ever...

Why would a film have to be a 'product of Hollywood and profit oriented'?
Even if it was, why would it have to focus mainly on Stevie and Lindsey? Has Hollywood completely lost the concept of a good story?

By the way, Fleetwood Mac were never a mediocre blues band and by the time Stevie and Lindsey joined they were far from even being a blues band.

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Originally Posted by FuzzyPlum (Post 1156217) Why would a film have to be a 'product of Hollywood and profit oriented'? Even if it was, why would it have to focus mainly on Stevie and Lindsey? Has Hollywood completely lost the concept of a good story? By the way, Fleetwood Mac were never a mediocre blues band and by the time Stevie and Lindsey joined they were far from even being a blues band.

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Absolutely correct, because Welch and McVie's musical partnership pushed them towards rock/pop confessional songwriting.

Cheers
Mystery to Me and Bare Trees are two of the best albums ever

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Kanye West, Britney Spears, And Other Musical Acts Who Should Have A Movie Made About Them

BY: Steven Hyden Cultural Critic 05.30.19

On Friday, a new movie about the life of Elton John, Rocketman, will open in theaters. It’s the first big biopic about a musician to be released since the worldwide blockbuster success of 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody. (I’m not counting the misbegotten adaptation of The Dirt, Motley Crue’s salacious memoir, that appeared on Netflix earlier this year, and was promptly panned and forgotten.) More biopics about famous musicians are on the horizon, including movies about David Bowie, Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, and Celine Dion.

While I haven’t seen any of those movies yet, including Rocketman, I’m confident that the following two things are true: 1) They are probably going to be bad, because biopics about musicians are almost always bad; 2) I will enjoy watching them, because I’m a sucker for music biopics, especially if they’re bad. (Even The Dirt!)

I’ve seen so many music biopics that I think I’m pretty good at coming up with new ideas for music biopics. Here are eight of them, listed in order from “this would definitely work” to “this is kind of stupid but it would still definitely work.”

1. Go Your Own Way: The Fleetwood Mac Story

How has this movie not already been made? Perhaps because there’s too much story for a two or three-hour movie? You would have to make a Game Of Thrones-style TV show to tells the full story of Fleetwood Mac. Even the stuff that the average music fan doesn’t know about Fleetwood Mac is fascinating. The Peter Green years could be its own season. The Bob Welch years could also be a season. And then there are Mac’s glory years — you’ll need at least 12 episodes to do justice to the soap opera that unfolded during the making of Rumours. And then there’s the making of Tusk, which was nearly as tumultuous. I want an entire episode about Lindsey Buckingham doing blow and writing “The Ledge!”

Another thing in Fleetwood Mac’s favor: This band has an abundance of good movie/TV show titles, whether you want to go tragic (“Little Lies”), ironic (“You Make Loving Fun”), or dreamy (“Dreams”).

I have always thought (and probably mentioned here in the past) that a movie would be too short to tell an accurate story about Fleetwood Mac. A miniseries would be far better. Or even a large series with different seasons, but a miniseries I think could be enough.

I agree , I like the idea of a 5 part miniseries.

Pt 1. The early years/Peter Green & co 1967-1971
Pt 2. The transition years/ Bob Welch & co 1972-1974
Pt 3. Rumours 5 fab 1975-1987
Pt 4. Go solo 1981 to present
Pt 5. Buckingham out/in/out/ new line ups 1988 to present

I think it would make a great Netflix series. It could go on for years! LOL

The best scene would be when Stevie crashes Keith Olsen's Corvette through the roof of a house.

Stevie parks Keith's Corvette on a hill. She gets out of the car. She is standing there in a long robe, pink fuzzy slippers and a towel in her hair. She shuts the door. The car starts rolling down hill, flies off the road and ends up in someone's living room.

The camera pans back to Stevie's face. Stevie says, "huh?".

I took only slight liberties with the official story.