Friday, August 13, 2010

Bill Monroe Movie Update

American actor Peter Sarsgaard will star in an upcoming biographical motion picture (biopic) about the “Father of Bluegrass” Bill Monroe, the man who almost single-handedly invented a musical genre, one of very few original American music art forms: 'Bluegrass Music'.


Sarsgaard is a longtime fan of Monroe and will play the lead role. He approached script writer Callie Khouri (Thelma and Louise) about helping to rewrite the first draft of the script. Khouri is wife of musician/producer T Bone Burnett (music producer for the film “O Brother, Where Art Thou”). While the bluegrass biopic is in the early stages of development, the soundtrack is already being produced Read on.

1 comment:

Sam said...

Here's hoping they right a realistic story of Mr. Monroe and not a sugarcoated fairytale. Real life is much more interesting than a glossed over version of the truth that tries to please everyone. I'm hoping that frank honesty wins out but I'm not hopeful.