How a decade-old “Funny or Die” sketch led to Daniel Radcliffe being cast as the world’s preeminent parody songwriter in the most outlandish biopic you’ll see this year.
. After jumping through a few Hollywood hoops, he and Appel were writing a feature-length script and, soon after, watching Daniel Racliffe as Weird Al in a shootout with Pablo Escobar on a film set.
had come out. Those events had happened maybe a decade earlier, and I read some article about all the factual inaccuracies that were in the movie. And the idea was like, “Oh, that'd be funny if I made a fake biopic trailer about someone who's still alive, and then I just made up all the facts.” Like, you could clearly fact check this.He was one of the first people I thought of for two reasons. One is the meta nature of it being a fake parody.
I love that he would play this fake trailer at shows, and fans enjoyed it so much that they essentially willed this movie into existence.
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