If A Joy Division Movie...sorry Film (this is art, people)...Was Ever Made:

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Who would play Ian Curtis?

― Derek Dalek (Derek Dalek), Friday, 30 August 2002 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

elijah wood.

tracy morgan can play king tubby.

― dk, Friday, 30 August 2002 17:17 (twenty-three years ago)

the guy who played him in 24 Hour Party People

― blueski, Friday, 30 August 2002 17:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I always thought that Eddie Kaye Thomas dude looked like Ian Curtis. I don't know if he sings, but his voice is pretty deep. (He did the MILF in American Pie and was one of the rich-snob wanna b-boys in Black & White. Oh and then there's Stolen Summer. He was in that too.)

― Andy K (Andy K), Friday, 30 August 2002 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Hi Andy K,

I didn't know who Eddie Kaye Thomas was, so i did a search on google for a 'graph. i agree with you...nice one.

― Derek Dalek (Derek Dalek), Friday, 30 August 2002 17:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Derek, such a thing already exists but for a hypothetical movie I would cast...errrrrrr...Peter Kay.

― Venga, Friday, 30 August 2002 17:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Jackie Coogan

― Sandy Blair, Friday, 30 August 2002 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Hi Venga,

Again, I had to look up Peter Kay, another good suggestion, although he seems a tad on the chunky side to play Curtis, don't you think?

― Derek Dalek (Derek Dalek), Friday, 30 August 2002 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Jackie Coogan?
Hmmm...I think you're pulling my leg there Sandy!

― Derek Dalek (Derek Dalek), Friday, 30 August 2002 17:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I just want to see Kay do the Curtis dance to "She's Lost Control".

― Venga, Friday, 30 August 2002 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Gilbert Gottfried

― Rahul Kamath (Rahul Kamath), Friday, 30 August 2002 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Me.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 30 August 2002 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

"She's Lost Control" is a great song...what's your favorite J.D. track? Also, have you read "Touching From A Distance" by Deborah Curtis?

― Derek Dalek (Derek Dalek), Friday, 30 August 2002 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Erm.

― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 30 August 2002 17:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Hi Jody,
That was really interesting stuff...although the fact that Danny Boyle might have been involved is rather scary. Don't get me wrong I think Boyle's made some great flicks ("Trainspotting" and "Shallow Grave") but his output since Hollywood sucked his creative juices out of him has been dismal to say the least.

Hmmm...that's another question then...if they DID make a J.D. movie who would be a good choice to direct it? I'll go with Johnathan Glazer, whose first movie "Sexy Beast" is one of my all time favorites, an instant brit-gangster classic i think.

― Derek Dalek (Derek Dalek), Friday, 30 August 2002 17:55 (twenty-three years ago)

if they DID make a J.D. movie who would be a good choice to direct it?

Mike Leigh?

― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 30 August 2002 17:59 (twenty-three years ago)

E-mail I got recently...

I don't know why they would want to do this, since 24 HOUR PARTY
PEOPLE
isn't making any money -- but I just heard that a NY-based production
company has renewed their rights to the Ian Curtis book written by
his wife.
It's to be called TRANSMISSION. I think it's an absolutely stupid
idea, is
only alive because of PARTY PEOPLE, and will be your traditional
boring
bio-pic. But who knows?

― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 30 August 2002 18:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Derek, have you seen Party People? The Ian Curtis characterization is excellent. You should search the old threads to see what people have said about the "movie" (a word not shunned around here).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 30 August 2002 18:31 (twenty-three years ago)

If Mike Lewis directs, David Thewlis must play Ian:)

If Robert Altman directs, Robert Downey Jr. can take a stab at it...

But, probably, Ewan McGregor would be called in to maximize profits...

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 30 August 2002 22:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Of course, in the above line I meant Mike Leigh...

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 30 August 2002 22:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I like this distinction between movie and film - it's like people who call cars 'motors'!!

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 30 August 2002 23:27 (twenty-three years ago)

It would have to be Christopher Eccleston.

― edward (big E.D), Friday, 30 August 2002 23:46 (twenty-three years ago)

eccleston is old: curtis was a kid

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 30 August 2002 23:49 (twenty-three years ago)

True. I suppose it depends whether you want to bolster the myth or not, cause I reckon Eccleston has the look, voice and presence to do that pretty well. What would be the point of doing a realistic portrayal of Ian C?

― edward (big E.D), Saturday, 31 August 2002 00:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Andy K has it right - that guy is the only actor out there makes me think a J.D. pic might be worth doing. But not really.

― Chris Ott, Saturday, 31 August 2002 04:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Can Mike Skinner act?

― stevo (stevo), Saturday, 31 August 2002 05:31 (twenty-three years ago)

i'll wager a monkey he could pull it off - i'm sure Guy Ritchie's already expressed an interest...

― blueski, Saturday, 31 August 2002 11:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom, I think folks in the UK use "film" more to describe an actual movie ("I'm going to see a film"), whereas here it's definitely called a "movie" or "flick" ("I'm going to see a movie" or "I'm going to the movies"). However, when someone does use the word "film" or "cinema", it's used to abstract the product in either academic or business terms ("I'm studying film-making/film-theory" or "I work in film"). Depending on the context, someone who uses the word "film" and especially "cinema" might be seen as pretentious or affecting arty aires.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 31 August 2002 18:48 (twenty-three years ago)

The young Rowan Atkinson.

― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 31 August 2002 22:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Bernard Sumner.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Sunday, 1 September 2002 21:31 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

lol

― Cooking From A Stovetop (electricsound), Thursday, 22 January 2009 03:47 (seventeen years ago)

Lyle Lovett

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 22 January 2009 06:46 (seventeen years ago)

Shemp Howard

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 22 January 2009 06:53 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

I just saw the movie CONTROL.

It was probably as good as it could have been, given what it was.

The Curtis character seemed uninteresting and undistinguished, a mixed-up NW chancer who worked in an office, sang in a band using a bizarre, silly syrupy American accent, and was unsurprisingly keen on the blandishments of a cute chick rather than his understandably clinging wife. I guess the one thing that would make him interesting is if one liked the band Joy Division.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 26 March 2009 23:54 (seventeen years ago)

here's the thread: Anticipate "Control" - The Ian Curtis biopic...

― mark cl, Thursday, 26 March 2009 23:58 (seventeen years ago)

Thank you, I couldn't find it!

― the pinefox, Friday, 27 March 2009 00:47 (seventeen years ago)

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