Murder, Drugs, and Drunk Driving: Inside the Wild 'Weird Al' Biopic

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Murder, Drugs, and Drunk Driving: Inside the Wild 'Weird Al' Biopic
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“I thought, ‘OK this guy gets it. He can embody me onscreen.” ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic and Daniel Radcliffe on the (fake) ‘Weird Al’ biopic that’s even weirder than you can imagine.

“Out of the blue, I get an email from Al,” says Appel. “He said, ‘Hey, last year I released this career-retrospective box set, and I’m trying to figure out what to do next. Would you have any interest in taking that old trailer we did and actually turning it into a real movie? We could write it together. You could direct it.’”

Radcliffe wasn’t very familiar with Yankovic’s work as a kid, but he became a fan when he started dating American actress Erin Darke 10 years ago, since her family were all superfans. “I became pretty obsessed,” he says. “My favorite songs of his are the originals, and I love the polkas.” “It’s not like it’s a super-low-budget indie movie,” he continues. “And it’s not a Marvel movie with a gazillion-dollar budget. It falls in the middle. It’s something that I think a lot of people are going to enjoy, but it’s just a hard pitch. It was a hard movie to sell.”

Also on their side was Yankovic’s well-deserved reputation as one of the nicest guys in the business, and his long list of friends in comedy willing to do just about anything to help him out. That’s most evident during a pool-party scene that spoofswhere Conan O’Brien, Jack Black, Jorma Taccone, Demetri Martin, Akiva Schaffer, Paul F. Tompkins, and Emo Phillips all appear in blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameos, playing cultural icons like Andy Warhol, Wolfman Jack, Tiny Tim, and Paul Reubens .

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