Roku to Make Movie About Weird Al Starring Daniel Radcliffe

<p><strong>SAN JOSE &&num;8212&semi;<&sol;strong> Roku is looking to add more original content to its service with a new feature film about Grammy-winning musician and pop cultural icon &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Weird Al” Yankovic&period; Produced by Funny Or Die and Tango&comma; <em>WEIRD&colon; The Al Yankovic Story<&sol;em> will be available exclusively on The Roku Channel&period; Production on the biopic begins in Los Angeles in early February&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Roku Original film will star Harry Potter&&num;8217&semi;s Daniel Radcliffe in the role of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Weird Al” Yankovic &&num;8212&semi; who is writing the film about himself&period; The biopic holds nothing back&comma; exploring every facet of Yankovic’s life&comma; from his meteoric rise to fame with early hits like &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Eat It” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Like a Surgeon” to his torrid celebrity love affairs and famously depraved lifestyle&period; <em>WEIRD&colon; The Al Yankovic Story<&sol;em> takes audiences on a journey through Yankovic’s life and career&comma; from gifted child prodigy to the greatest musical legend of all time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;<strong>Photo above<&sol;strong>&colon; Actor Daniel Radcliffe and Weird Al Yankovic&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;When my last movie <em>UHF<&sol;em> came out in 1989&comma; I made a solemn vow to my fans that I would release a major motion picture every 33 years&comma; like clockwork&period; I’m very happy to say we’re on schedule&comma;” said <strong>Yankovic<&sol;strong>&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;And I am absolutely thrilled that Daniel Radcliffe will be portraying me in the film&period; I have no doubt whatsoever that this is the role future generations will remember him for&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There <em>clearly <&sol;em>aren&&num;8217&semi;t enough biopic movies about famous musicians and we were excited to shine a light on the incredibly true&comma; unexaggerated story of Weird Al&comma;” said <strong>Colin Davis&comma; Roku’s Head of Original Scripted Programming<&sol;strong>&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This is sincerely the ultimate combination of talent&comma; creativity&comma; and friends&comma; coming together to make something genuinely funny and we could not be prouder to call this film a Roku Original&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>WEIRD&colon; The Weird Al Yankovic Story <&sol;em>is written by Al Yankovic &amp&semi; Eric Appel&period; Eric Appel will also direct the film and is an executive producer&period; The film is produced by Funny Or Die and Tango&period; Al Yankovic produces&comma; along with Mike Farah&comma; Joe Farrell and Whitney Hodack for Funny Or Die&comma; and Tim Headington&comma; Lia Buman and Max Silva for Tango&period; Funny Or Die&&num;8217&semi;s Henry Muñoz III and Tango&&num;8217&semi;s Neil Shah are executive producers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;When Weird Al first sat me down against my will and told me his life story&comma; I didn’t believe any of it&comma; but I knew that we had to make a movie about it&comma;”<strong> writer and director&comma; Eric Appel<&sol;strong>&comma; added&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I am excited that my first project as the owner of Funny Or Die Studios is to help bring the story of &OpenCurlyQuote;Weird Al’ Yankovic to the screen&period; Weird Al is a comic genius and his impact on pop culture&comma; his mastery of the music video&comma; his award-winning music and his incredible life are a perfect fit for the talented producers at FOD&comma;” said <strong>Henry Muñoz III&comma; Funny Or Die Chairman and executive producer&period;<&sol;strong> &&num;8220&semi;We are honored to partner with Roku&comma; Tango and our director Eric Appel on this important movie&period; WEIRD has brought together a weird and wonderful team of creative people&comma; to tell the story of a man who has made people laugh and sing across the world&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Weird Al” Yankovic is the biggest-selling comedy recording artist of all time&period; A five-time Grammy winner&comma; his 2014 release Mandatory Fun was the first comedy album in history to debut at &num;1 on Billboard’s Top 200&period; He is one of only three artists to have had their own top 40 hits in each of the last four decades &lpar;the other two being Michael Jackson and Madonna&rpar;&period; On August 27&comma; 2018&comma; the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce awarded Weird Al with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;