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MÖTLEY CRÜE Biopic 'The Dirt' Picked Up By FOCUS FEATURES

January 15, 2015

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the long-awaited film adaptation of MÖTLEY CRÜE's biography "The Dirt - Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band" has been picked up by Focus Features, the art house films division of NBCUniversal. The project is being helmed by "Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa" director Jeff Tremaine and is produced by Julie Yorn, Erik Olsen and Allen Kovac. It is executive-produced by Chris Nilsson, Steven Kline and Rick Yorn. Rich Wilkes ("XXX") and Tom Kapinos ("Californication") took care of the script.

MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee and bassist Nikki Sixx last year attended a read-through of the script with Tremaine and were impressed with what they saw.

"Can I tell you it was the most fucking insanely surreal experience I've ever sat through, y'know," Lee told GMI Rock News. "I sat through probably two hours and change of literally watching people act and play through this two-hour-plus movie of your… of 30 years of your life that went by in two hours, and I was just like, 'What the fuck?! That's insane. This movie is insane.' Even just the way the movie starts, you're like, 'How the hell are we gonna rate this thing, triple R?'"

According to Lee, the film won't include any big stars acting as the CRÜE members.

"We're going with all unknowns," he said. "I think that's crucial here, too. Getting known actors would not do anybody or the film or the band or any of that stuff justice. I think it would be watching a well-known actor play Vince [Neil] or myself or Nikki or Mick [Mars] would be weird, because all of those other movies they've done would be attached to that character, and it would be real hard to remove those. There's a lot of up-and-coming young actors that are fucking amazing, actually."

The actors who are cast will then join the band on tour. "I can just imagine some 25-year-old actor getting the part and being sent on the road to hang out and study us," Lee told GMI Rock News. "Wow, what a trip! They're gonna definitely come back a different animal."

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