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(Youtube Direktpunk, via We like that)

Schöner Trailer zu „The Taqwacores“ über muslimische Punks. Religion als Rebellion ist zwar genausogroßer Bullshit, wie Religion als Sinnstifter, aber was solls.

Three years in the making, this feature documentary follows the progression of the Muslim Punk scene: from its imaginary inception in a novel written by a white-convert named Michael Muhammad Knight to a full-blown, real-life scene of Muslim punk bands and their fans.

When he was 17, Michael Knight left his mother’s home in Rochester to study Islam at a Pakistani madrassa. It was his first act of rebellion – against his abusive, schizophrenic, white-supremacist father. Years later, burned out on the demands of religious dogma, Mike rebelled once more – by penning a Muslim Punk manifesto called The Taqwacores. His work of fiction struck a chord with young Muslims around the world and before long, real-life Taqwacore bands were creating a scene. This film follows Michael and his band of Muslim punks as they journey across the U.S. and Pakistan, transforming their worlds, their religion and themselves through the spirit of Taqwacore.

ramones

Es wundert mich etwas, dass es nicht schon längst ein Biopic der Ramones gibt, aber: Im Dezember erscheinen die Memoiren der Ramones mit Focus auf Joey Ramone und dieses Buch soll dann auch gleich mit verfilmt werden. Das Projekt befindet sich noch in Planung und die Rechte sind auch noch nicht geklärt, aber fuck: Ich will die Ramones auf der großen Leinwand sehen.

Hier jedenfalls die Ramones mit einem „Wonderful World“-Cover, danach die Meldung:


(Youtube Direktramones)

Fox Searchlight wants to be sedated.

The specialty division is in negotiations to board a project about the life of the Ramones, based on the upcoming memoir “I Slept With Joey Ramone,” by the musician’s brother, and featuring the band’s tunes.

The project, which initially had been conceived independently under manager-producer Rory Rosegarten, would get a significant boost with the involvement of the 20th Century Fox unit.

Written by Joey Ramone’s brother Mickey Leigh and longtime punk writer and Ramones chronicler Legs McNeil, it centers on the life of Joey Ramone, aka Jeffrey Hyman, the lead singer of the seminal punk act. The memoir is scheduled to be published by Simon & Schuster imprint Fireside in December.

Ramones biopic draws studio interest (via Filmstalker)

Amazon-Partnerlink: I Slept with Joey Ramone: A Family Memoir