Final month, The Roku Channel announced that historical Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe will well-known individual as “Queer Al” Yankovic within the upcoming biopic Queer: The Al Yankovic Tale. The challenge goes forward with the approval and participation of the particular “Queer Al” Yankovic. It sounds as if, manufacturing is much additional along than we beforehand believed. At present, The Roku Channel released the first picture of Radcliffe as the renowned parodist.
In the pic, Radcliffe assumes the signature hair, glasses, Hawaiian shirt, and even iconic accordion of “Queer Al.” If we didn’t know that it was truly Radcliffe, we could well well perhaps were fooled into thinking that this was a picture of the particular man.
“Sporting the Hawaiian shirt is a extensive accountability that I don’t spend flippantly,” acknowledged Radcliffe in an announcement. “And I’m honored to at closing half with the area the absolutely 100 percent unassailably proper tale of Queer Al’s homely and rotten existence.”
The film is severely facetiously described as a biopic that will “defend nothing lend a hand and uncover every facet of his existence, from his childhood thru his meteoric upward push to standing with early hits like ‘Like It’ and ‘Love a Surgeon,’ whereas pertaining to his torrid well-known individual like affairs and famously homely standard of living.”
Amusing or Die broken-down Eric Appel is directing the film, and he co-wrote the script with Yankovic himself. Appel and Yankovic are additionally government producing the film alongside Mike Farah, Joe Farrell, Whitney Hodack, Tim Headington, Lia Buman, Max Silva, Henry Muñoz III, and Neil Shah.
Queer: The Al Yankovic Tale is at prove shooting in Los Angeles and doesn’t have faith a liberate date at the present.
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