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Will there eventually be a movie about Guns n Roses? Should there even be one? What do you think?

Do you think it would end being like the Social Network in terms of narrative style and overall feel? Clearly there are some parallels there- lawyers, frienemies, nemeses, sex, drugs, rock n roll, interwebz.

Or what movie do you think it would be like (y'know, hypothetically speaking)?

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Will there eventually be a movie about Guns n Roses? Should there even be one? What do you think?

Do you think it would end being like the Social Network in terms of narrative style and overall feel? Clearly there are some parallels there- lawyers, frienemies, nemeses, sex, drugs, rock n roll, interwebz.

Or what movie do you think it would be like (y'know, hypothetically speaking)?

I wonder how the Motley movie will turn out. Sixx says it's gonna happen I guess.

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I don’t see this happening, no. There’s no particular instance in GN’R’s timeline that warrants a film. Perhaps the Rock Hall.

Or Axl’s life. Axl Rose: The Last Rockstar

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Will there eventually be a movie about Guns n Roses? Should there even be one? What do you think?

Do you think it would end being like the Social Network in terms of narrative style and overall feel? Clearly there are some parallels there- lawyers, frienemies, nemeses, sex, drugs, rock n roll, interwebz.

Or what movie do you think it would be like (y'know, hypothetically speaking)?

I wonder how the Motley movie will turn out. Sixx says it's gonna happen I guess.

Really? Didn't hear about that. If done well it should be a good one.

The movie has been discussed for some time, and while Sixx can't give specifics yet, he promises the film, based on the group's memoir The Dirt, will happen. "We have sort of an agreement with a production company, directors, etc, to right now just keep it amongst ourselves," he says. "So once we have everything really together, we’re gonna let everybody know. But trust me, when I say the wheels are in motion they’re definitely in motion."

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/nikki-sixx-vegas-residency-is-start-of-biggest-years-of-crues-career-20111221#ixzz1iQga0Oyh

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there would be no fortus in a guns movie.

Why not? He's been in GNR for quite a while now.

because the movie would be about 85-95. he can be in gnr for 50 years for all i care but there's no movie to be made about the lineup post 95.

With all due respect, you're out of your gourd.

There have been plenty of happenings post '95 which warrant inclusion in such a film. Buckethead's involvement, and more specifically his interaction with Axl and the band, and his eventual exit- THAT would be fascinating. There's plenty of super-interesting things in the ENTIRE timeline, not just pre-95.

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there would be no fortus in a guns movie.

Why not? He's been in GNR for quite a while now.

because the movie would be about 85-95. he can be in gnr for 50 years for all i care but there's no movie to be made about the lineup post 95.

With all due respect, you're out of your gourd.

There have been plenty of happenings post '95 which warrant inclusion in such a film. Buckethead's involvement, and more specifically his interaction with Axl and the band, and his eventual exit- THAT would be fascinating. There's plenty of super-interesting things in the ENTIRE timeline, not just pre-95.

i want the movie to be about the dog shit in the chicken coup

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it's not a knock against the new band, but any movie about GNR would end after Slash and Duff leave. Now if you're talking a documentary, I can see that including the entire history up until now.

This is actually a pretty interesting idea. It would be hard to write and find the right structure, but there is definitely a killer movie in there somewhere. Especially is Fincher were to direct it.

smoke a blunt, grab a brew and watch the first half of Estranged. In my head I picture that as the GNR movie.

It's like the trailer to it.

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It's hard to say. On one hand, the Chinese Democracy era was in some ways more interesting than the previous one. On the other hand, if you try to include everything you run the risk of (1) a 7-hour movie, or (2) an incoherent mess.

A lot of bio-pics do choose to focus in on a particular timeframe for these reasons (see The Aviator as an example). Just works better that way, as a film.

smoke a blunt, grab a brew and watch the first half of Estranged. In my head I picture that as the GNR movie.

It's like the trailer to it.

I fucking love the Estranged video. Always have.

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it's not a knock against the new band, but any movie about GNR would end after Slash and Duff leave. Now if you're talking a documentary, I can see that including the entire history up until now.

So yer tellin me that Slash drunkenly ringing Axl's front-gate doorbell at 2am in the morning in 2005 (or whatever) doesn't warrant a scene in the movie? Is that what you're telling me? You people are unbelievable.

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it's not a knock against the new band, but any movie about GNR would end after Slash and Duff leave. Now if you're talking a documentary, I can see that including the entire history up until now.

So yer tellin me that Slash drunkenly ringing Axl's front-gate doorbell at 2am in the morning in 2005 (or whatever) doesn't warrant a scene in the movie? Is that what you're telling me? You people are unbelievable.

Good point. That scene probably should be in the movie.

I think the problem is, there so much to tell, that how do you break it down to a 2 hour movie; Also, lets be honest... how much do we really know about the period between 1995-2002 in regards to Axl? Most of that era would be based off speculation.

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It depends on whether or not Axl has a hand in the script.

Here's my dream cast for the GNR movie:

Sean Penn... Axl

Robert Pattinson... Ashba

Sean Astin... BBF

Adrien Brody... 4tus

Gary Sinise... Dizzy

Greg Kinnear... Pitman

Brad Pitt... Tommy

Will Smith... Frank

It depends on whether or not Axl has a hand in the script.

Here's my dream cast for the GNR movie:

Sean Penn... Axl

Robert Pattinson... Ashba

Sean Astin... BBF

Adrien Brody... 4tus

Gary Sinise... Dizzy

Greg Kinnear... Pitman

Brad Pitt... Tommy

Will Smith... Frank

forgot to add:

Streep... Beta

Gael Garcia Bernal... Fernando

Penelope Cruz... Vanessa

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if I were to write a screenplay on a period in Guns history, it would be either on the early days, chunks from the childhoods of the band members, settling into the LA scene, forming the band, recording of appetite and ends with everyone's downfall going into the 1988-1991 period...because if that's the story, then it has to ends on a bitter note, there's no way around it....including the illusion tour into the movie would be too much and it gets repetitive after a while...there are too many crappu movies about rockstar excesses, the movies that are great are about people...everything else is a prop and scenery...it's like...you can say that Godfather is a mob movie...but to me it's a lot more than that...goodfellas is a mob movie...godfather is something bigger...the guns n' roses story could be just that

another great screenplay would be about the recording of CD...a musical prodigy/underdog story...how do you go about trying to rebuild and outdo something that was the best thing to ever happen to you...it wouldn't be impossible to pull off, if there was any tangible records of the whole era....it would be the perfect ground to explore the dichotomy of art and commerce, dealing with impossible expectation and insurmountable personal issues and at the same time trying to transcribe your most intimate thoughts and feelings into art....axl himself would be a great biopic, but I think that focusing on CD would be even more interesting...because of the legend and the mythical aura that surrounded/still surrounds it

also if I were to have someone direct the guns n' roses movie..it would probably be Coppola...he's great with depicting human interactions...and his screenplays are always so fresh and detailed...

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