Daniel Radcliffe to Play ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic in Roku’s First Original Biopic Movie

Variety ^ | Zack Sharf

[catnipman]

“UHF is an OK movie made very good by Michael Richards (Kramer) Worth the time to watch.”

definitely worth watching, if for nothing else than the “Spatula World” ad ...

[Kommodor]

Ah, yes, that was a good one too, along with “Wheel of Fish” and other classics.

Man, now I have to see if I can find my DVD.

[MrHead]

Daniel Radcliffe is 7 inches shorter in height.

[Trillian]

This sounds like the babylon bee.. or april fools came early this year.

[dynachrome]

I hope so.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Weird Al is supposed to be a nice guy. He's never been into drugs or booze, and has been married to one woman.

I said hello to him on a flight out of LAX back in the '90s. Seemed very polite and down-to-earth.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

“famously depraved lifestyle”

Didn’t know that.

It's a joke - Variety is trying to be funny.

[LanaTurnerOverdrive]

Song parody. By far the lowest form of comedy.

[Tax-chick]

Colin Davis, Roku’s Head of Original Scripted Programming, added, “There clearly aren’t enough biopic movies about famous musicians and ...

And Mr. Davis is making a stab at being funny, too.

[Disambiguator]

Best bit from UHF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BUDwj_mXKE

[dfwgator]

There was already a pretty tongue-in-cheek episode of VH-1’s Behind The Music about Weird Al.

[avenir]

Same here, started a Google search to try to figure that comment out and didn’t get much so far.

[ifinnegan]

Poor casting I think.

Anyhow, who plays Dr D?

[ifinnegan]

Call the Wambulance.

[jjotto]

He’s famously not a drunk or druggie, or promiscuous. And very high IQ. Degree in architecture in less than 4 years, I think. The writer seems to be making a joke.

[Moonmad27]

Al did tweet today that he was making a movie.

[Celtic Conservative]

You care so little for him, yet you bothered to make a negative post.

I sense that you are internally conflicted. Or boring.

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[tophat9000]

Who Playing DR.Demento and other Mighty Met sstaff?

[Captain Peter Blood]

They have truly run out of ideas.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Make a movie about him