Sweetbaby wrote:Well actually I think this sounds like one for Dusty-fans to root for - of course it does depend what week will be the focus but it seems to me unlikely the focus would be on seven of Dusty's darker days. I'm somewhat puzzled that the project description on the official Number 9 Films site - cut & pasted above - doesn't corroborate the one-week focus: perhaps Ms Nagy only honed her project's focus some time into its development & the Number 9 site hasn't been updated to reflect this. I personally would hope any Dusty biopic would be "fantastic & wild" in the sense of capturing the energy of the Swingin' 60s but I realize that phrase might concern fans who fear a biopic might sensationalize Dusty's private life.
Any road - assuming this project will focus on a single week, anyone care to guess what we'd be seeing? If Dusty's hit In the Middle of Nowhere is in fact relevant time-wise then we're talking about a week in the summer of 1965 that being when the single charted- altho my impression is that said period didn't see Dusty kicking up a lot of dust!
daydreamer wrote:Karen has just said what I was going to say Douggie, contact the lady writing the script. If she knows anything about Dusty, she should know of you. If she doesn't, well, it could be another lost cause! Maybe you need to write about the Dusty you and people like Pat knew. Put it in print, don't leave it for someone else (yet again!) who never even met her. I definitely don't love everything inspired by Dusty, I try and see some positives but in the main I just get frustrated![]()
I'm also confused by the one week thing as opposed to the Number 9 write up. You get the feeling that if it is based on one week, apart from South Africa, then it will just be an amalgam of bits and pieces of facts and fiction.
pat.dunham wrote: The fact that Number 9 Films are interested could be an omen, as 9 is a significant number in Dustys' life.
1939 - Born
1949 - Last year at junior school in High Wycombe.
1959 - The Lanas, "Sitting on the back seat".
1969 - DIM
1979 - Very mixed year- cancelled UK tour-triumph at Drury Lane - OBs passing- but ending on a high at RAH.
1989 - "In Private" issued and reached 14 in charts.
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humboldt wrote:Yes well I shan't bother with this! Dusty's life has been fully chronicled and laid bare. There is nothing left to tell and I don't really want to watch anyone else singing Dusty's hits and I am unanimous in this! Still it will keep up her public profile and engage new fans so that's not a bad thing.
Sweetbaby wrote:Well it's not an either/or situation with the stage musical and this biopic - perhaps the latter's buzz will boost the fortunes of the former.
I'm pretty sure Gemma will be doing her own singing, or else Number 9 would have gone with more of a "name". And the company seems to have no trouble attracting star power, beginning with Judi Dench and Maggie Smith in the inaugural Number 9 production Ladies in Lavender: of course Cate Blanchett portrayed Phyllis Nagy's Carol and no less than Keira Knightley is Colette in Number 9's current biopic about the French novelist.
That said - as an indie film company Number 9 probably has to be frugal: obtaining the rights for Dusty's recordings would likely be more expensive than cutting new tracks. As I recall the handful of Dusty biopic projects which have been "floated" since 2001 all planned to star an actress who'd do her own singing. Perhaps the owners of the original tracks just aren't forthcoming at any price.
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which I have thought about and have agreed with whole heartedly.
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.donellac wrote:Hi Douggie,
Great to get your angle on this production.
I always wonder, though, what you mean when you sayMany things have been brought to my attention from other people,
which I have thought about and have agreed with whole heartedly.
This information was given to me, but is not mine to elaborate on or talk about. Thank you again for your trust! I am sure you know who you are.[/quot] andResearch has always been the answer, but only if the right questions are asked!!
To the right people that is!!
Douggie, who are the right people? What are the right questions?
mas wrote:Well said, Carole. Dusty's beautiful voice could never be replicated by anyone no matter how hard they may try.
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Sweetbaby wrote:In a recent interview the producers of So Much Love briefly discuss the film:
During the making of Carol, we mentioned to Phyllis [Nagy, the screenwriter] about wanting to do Dusty Springfield. We’d had a couple of false starts on it. We couldn’t get it quite right. We pitched this idea to her and now we have this wonderful script. It’s a great way of examining the real Dusty, in the way that Scandal and Backbeat - the latter being a 1994 film based on the Beatles' early 60s Hamburg sojourn - did with their 60s subjects. Hopefully it’s going to be really reflecting what the world was like for Dusty, and what Dusty was like in that world.
The main focus on the interview is on Number 9's Colette biopic but Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley do discuss their underlying philosophy of film-making which is interesting and IMHO will be reassuring to Dusty's fans. You can read the entire interview at https://spotlight.picturehouses.com/rec ... n-woolley/
daydreamer wrote:From reading a lot of the news stories over the last day or so, it seems to be only based in the 60's and the 'week' in question being during the recording of DIM. If so, then I guess it could be that they will be using flash backs to tell the story of her Motown connections and South African trip. I'm actually pleased if it is just a story set in the 60's but I wouldn't be pleased to hear Gemma Arterton (or anyone else actually) trying to sound like Dusty, especially on the Memphis tracks. Just mime! Without Dusty's own singing voice in a film, I believe you lose what it was that made her so special.
Sweetbaby wrote:I think there's at least a strong possibility that the original tracks aren't available for soundtrack use - at least not to facilitate a portrayal of Dusty as opposed to being incidental music. So either Gemma sings herself or mimes to third party remakes of Dusty's tracks - and at this point IMHO we can't say for sure that Gemma can't approximate Dusty's vocals at least as well as a singer who's known to vocally resemble Dusty such as Mari Wilson.
I don't mean to tubthump for the film - my last post was just passing on info - but I would suggest that if the film can't showcase Dusty's original vocals it shouldn't be faulted for that. Perhaps - however impressive the producers' track record and good their intentions - the film will prove "faultable" on other scores. A Dusty biopic is - apparently - and finally! - being made with or without her fans' approval: as with the SOAPM musical and the Katherine Kingsley vehicle I think Dusty's fans can only wait and hope for the best.
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