Weird Al' Yankovic

In real life, it's unclear if the pair ever physically met, but the 64-year-old Queen of Pop did come up with the name of his Like a Virgin parody, ...

The pair shared the scene with the real-life Yankovic who not only played a record executive, but also served as co-writer and producer of Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. 'Eat It!' The pair shared the scene with the real-life Yankovic who not only played a record executive, but also served as co-writer and producer of Weird: The Al Yankovic Story The fantasy continues as Madonna becomes a 'bad influence' on 'Weird Al' as they are trailed by fans and paparazzi.

From Freddie Mercury to James Brown to Madonna herself, many of the artists that “Weird” Al Yankovic has parodied have either received the biopic treatment, ...

Demento (who, like in the movie, really did give Yankovic his first airplay); and Evan Rachel Wood as Madonna, who, unlike in the movie really didn’t seduce Al and drag him to the dark side. That trailer was more of an explicit parody of rise-and-fall dramatic music biopics, while the new promo for the new full-length movie shows a slick, slyer take. So it’s only fitting that the musical madman himself is finally getting his own origin story in Weird, a movie about Al’s rise to mainstream ubiquity—one that turns out to be a parody of biopics themselves.

Made for the Roku Channel in the US, this upcoming biopic about Weird Al Yankovich looks gloriously silly. In too many music biopics to count, a star is...

Yankovic is one of the screenwriters, in fact, alongside director Eric Appel (a TV sitcom veteran with Happy Endings, New Girl, With Radcliffe seemingly having the time of his life as the musician behind 'Another One Rides the Bus', 'Smells Like Nirvana' and 'Amish Paradise' — plus comedic riffs on pretty much every other big song of the past four-plus decades that you can think of — Weird: The Al Yankovic Story really is exactly what it sounds like. Radcliffe sports wire-framed glasses, those shirts, that hair and Yankovic's instantly recognisable moustache in the music biopic, which feels like it was cast by the internet. [The Lost City](https://concreteplayground.com/brisbane/event/the-lost-city-3)), says in the just-dropped full trailer for Weird — in case you thought the film wasn't going to be gloriously ridiculous. And, he certainly didn't don the curliest of wigs, swan around in Hawaiian shirts with his chest hair flapping in the breeze or pick up an accordion, either — but Weird is making all of the above magic happen. The list goes on, and also includes Radcliffe having an absolute ball in the lead role.

The Harry Potter actor will play the beloved comedian and musician in the film, which promises to follow Yankovic's life “from his rise to fame in the music ...

I’m very happy to say we’re on schedule,” Yankovic said in a previous statement. The Harry Potter actor will play the beloved comedian and musician in the film, which promises to follow Yankovic’s life “from his rise to fame in the music industry to his celebrity love affairs”. The film – full title WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story – will be released via The Roku Channel on November 4 after a premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) next week (September 8).