Another Jim Morrison film? Wasn’t the Oliver Stone awesome-disaster and the recent rather forgettable Tom DiCillo documentary enough?
Was there a renaissance of shamanistic buffoons dressed in painted-on leather pants and we didnt’ get the memo? Apparently.
So Gus Van Sant did his “Last Days,” the not-Kurt Cobain (totally Kurt Cobain) inspired picture of the Seattle rockers final hours on earth and now the same kind of deal is happening with Mr. Lizard King, Jim Morrison (and you can always get a two’fer, a biopic and the “last days,” producers take note!)
Robert Saitzyk, the writer director behind “Godspeed,” “White of Winter” and “After the Flood” (don’t worry, we haven’t seen the either), will write and direct, “The Last Beat,” which will center on Morrison’s final days in Paris, with his girlfriend Pamela Courson.
Shawn Andrews, who appeared in ‘Flood’ and “Dazed and Confused,” is attached to play Morrison and the film will shoot in October in Paris according to THR.
Apparently it will be a “non-traditional biopic” (uhh, if it’s “the last days,” then it’s not really a biopic now is it), and will chart Morrison’s trying to navigate relationships with “a glamorous French Countess named Clemence and his California soulmate, Valerie Eason.”
We assume Eason is supposed to play a fictionalized version of Courson? Let’s face it, the only way to make this really entertaining is to get into all the dumb, specious rumors of surrounding his death, like Jim being accursed by a Gypsy he slept with in Paris and of course all the drunken gibberish poetry he recorded in that time, which should at least be fun dialogue to write.
