Stevie Nicks movie
 

Before everyone gets all worked up...I don't know of a Stevie Nicks biography in actual production. I have heard rumours, however, that some producers are proposing one tentatively called Bella Donna, if they could get Stevie to cooperate. Her story would make a great film IMO. I was thinking about her life story, and how you could break it down into several periods. These are my thoughts on the film.

1) The film could start with Stevie in high school in Northern California and first meeting Lindsey Buckingham. This phase could go through Stevie's time at Cal State San Jose.

2) The next phase could be pre-FM in Los Angeles and the BN albumn.

3) The 3rd chapter could be the miraculous "discovery" of BN by Mick Fleetwood and cover the FM sensation through about 1980. Of course this part could depict the making of Rumours and the split ups of BN and the McVie's. A lot of drama here.

4) The 4th chapter would be her solo Bella Donna period through 1986 and then going to Betty Ford for drug addiction. Depending on how it's portrayed, this part could get ugly.

5) The next part would deal with her Klonipin abuse and inactivity through early 1990's

6) The picure could end with the reuniting of FM and the Clinton galas and then finally The Dance tour.

I don't know if there would be a big enough audience for a theatrical release, but it could work for cable TV like HBO or Showtime.

Anyone else hear about this film? I hope it actually comes to fruition.

isn't that the exact timeline of how things occured? ;)

I would LOVE a movie, but I'd be really picky about it...on second thought, maybe I don't want a movie...ever seen the movie about Naomi and Wynnona - now there's a way to really make a great story really bad

Oh, I just realized I left out the most important part...who plays Stevie Nicks in this movie. I propose Ashley Judd. She comes from a musical family and looks like Stevie. She is also old enough (38) to play the young and old Stevie.

I don't know. That was the immediate question that came to my mind. Obviously apart from myself :rolleyes: Hah, I can dream nobody on earth would please me. It'd be cool though.

On a slightly related topic ... what about Stevie as an actress?

as cool as that would be, it'd never work...the woman gets tongue-tied too easily; maybe guest roles or small parts tho

love ya Stevie.

i think the movie would be a bigger audiance if it were about all of fleetwood mac, and called Rumors or something, however personaly i would rather see a strickly stevie film, god i have dreamed about that forever, but we all know we would find something inacturate, stupid, or bad about it, so i have mixed feelings about the whole thing really, i mean look at all the other movies like that one, however if HBO or showtime did it, it would probably be good, i think it would need a fantasy like artsy edge to it however, showing stevie as almost living in a non realistic world, also some creative things could accur when stevie is addicted to drugs, to show things from prespective, as well as klonopin, there are many many places one can go with this, however i think the overall theme should be that of overcoming negative things in ones life, to work for the better more postive, and ultimantly come out on top ( just like stevie :) )

Considering her age and all now...she would be limited to a cameo or guest spot. Maybe in this Stevie Nicks movie she could appear in the opening sequence where she starts to tell her story to, say, a reporter. Then the screen fades to her in high school.

I hope this movie is made. Personally I think it would be a blockbuster.

I'd rather read the book.

Here's what I think would make the best Stevie Nicks movie: make a big-ass DVD out of all the footage of recording "Bella Donna" & put that on our shelves!

(According to Stevie, it was all filmed.)

I will play Stevie from 35-45. That is if Strand doesn't get the part...

I think there's too much. I would say you could make the whole movie about just Rumours, just the cocaine and Klonopin, just the cocaine _or_ Klonopin if you got right down to it, just the Lindsey/Stevie story, just the ups and downs of even a decade. No film about Stevie Nicks would make enough money for anyone to do it if it were, like, three hours long. Two and a half hours, at the most, would leave between twenty minutes and a half an hour for each section. Maybe that'd be enough, but try fitting everything interesting that happened in Rumours into twenty minutes? And then the Mac high into the next ten minutes? I don't think that would work. If _I_ went to it, and they'd cut out a load of stuff to fit it in, I'd be complaining.

And yeah, I can think of no one who could play Stevie. You might need about three or four different Stevie's for a start...

I hope there would be a way of doing it, and doing it right, though. Done right it'd be awesome.

I swear. Can you imagine if Stevie released a collection of footage she had taken over the course of her career? That would be the blockbuster.

Dreams of Enchanted Crystal Visions

Coke, Chiffon and Videotape

I can see it now

That's it! Let's petition her! We'll do the old kid trick: PleaseSteviePleaseSteviePleaseSteviePleaseSteviePleaseSteviePleaseSteviePleaseSteviePleaseSteviePlea seStevie
PleaseSteviePleaseSteviePleaseSteviePleaseSteviePleaseSteviePleaseStevie
PleaseSteviePleaseSteviePleaseSteviePleaseSteviePleaseStevie...PleaseSteviePleaseSteviePleaseStevie
PleaseSteviePleaseStevie

A giant playing a midget? Well, it is Hollywood...

I can't foresee a Stevie movie happening. She's got to animate the Rhiannon Chronicles first!!

Yep. :nod: