Before Sunrise star Julie Delpy is set to direct her sixth feature film, a biopic of The Clash frontman Joe Strummer, currently titled The Right Profile after a track on London Calling, the band’s 1979 album.
French-born Delpy may find a role for herself in the new film as she has had a lead role in each of movies she has made in her career as a director.
The biopic will obviously portray lead vocalist of the Clash, but will centers on Stummer’s planned vanishing from the public eye soon before the Combat Rock album was released in 1982. The son of a British diplomat, Strummer died at the relatively young age of 50 years on December 22nd, 2002, for less than a month The Clash were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
After a sequel to Before Sunset the multi-hyphenate Delpy has seemingly found a new high-profile project to direct. She obviously didn’t hear of a second wave of global economic crisis. Good for her.
No word yet on who will play John Graham Mellor, best remembered by his stage name Joe Strummer, the co-founder, lyricist, etc. of the English punk rock band.
Do you think Delpy is able to share or understand the underlying values and philosophy of the punk subculture? I am in doubt, but stay tuned to the blog and
‘Say, where did I see this guy?’
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The Clash – The Right Profile
Joe Strummer
