Mick Jagger has expressed interest in a potential Rolling Stones biographical film, drawing parallels to recent music biopics during a recent GQ interview.
“Yeah, it interests me,” Jagger responded when asked about the prospect of a Stones biopic in the context of Sam Mendes’ upcoming Beatles film series.
Jagger noted that biopics typically focus on a specific period of an artist’s life. “There’s lots of ways of doing biopics. Most of the time when you do a biopic, you do one small section of someone’s life bookended by some other stuff,” he explained.
He pointed to Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan film “A Complete Unknown” as an example, which chronicled Dylan’s early years in New York and his controversial shift from folk to electric music.
“Take the Bob Dylan movie,” Jagger said. “You do the moment when Bob went electric. You’d have to think, what are you going to zero in on? And where’s your two years of interest? I mean that Bob Dylan one was two years, [the] James Brown one that I produced was slightly more.”
When asked which period of the Stones’ history he would focus on, Jagger replied: “I don’t know which section, because it’s a long period.”
Jagger produced the 2014 James Brown biopic “Get On Up,” starring Chadwick Boseman. The film was directed by Tate Taylor and also featured Nick Eversman as a young Jagger.
Earlier reports in 2012 indicated Virgin acquired rights to Robert Greenfield’s book “Exile On Main Street: A Season In Hell With The Rolling Stones” for a potential film about the band’s chaotic 1971 South of France recording sessions. The project resurfaced in 2016 with Andy Goddard attached to direct.
Jagger brings extensive film experience to the conversation, including notable roles in “Performance” (1970), “Ned Kelly,” and “The Burnt Orange Heresy,” as well as co-creating HBO’s music-industry drama “Vinyl” with Martin Scorsese.
His comments come ahead of The Rolling Stones’ new album “Foreign Tongues,” scheduled for release on July 10, along with an official podcast companion to the record.
