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Budget. $8 million [1] Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is a 2022 American biographical musical parody film directed by Eric Appel, in his feature directorial debut, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Al Yankovic. [2] The film is a satire on musical biopics and is loosely based on Yankovic's life and career as an accordionist and parody songwriter ...
Nov 3, 2022 · It took more than a decade for Yankovic and Appel to make a full-length movie out of it, but they have. ... The Al Yankovic Story" is the funniest and most entertaining satire of musical biography ...
Nov 1, 2022 · Roku. Director/co-writer Eric Appel delivers comedy greatness in his first feature film. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is a knockdown funny satire and parody of musical biopics. "Weird Al" becomes ...
- Film Critic & Entertainment Reporter
Nov 2, 2022 · November 2, 2022. Twelve years ago, director Eric Appel directed a fake trailer for Funny or Die promising a “Weird Al” Yankovic biopic. It starred Aaron Paul as Weird Al, and got a lot of ...
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Surprisingly, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is one of the rare biopics that is mostly fabricated or exaggerated for the sake of parody. It’s loosely based on Weird Al’s life, but it takes small grains of truth and twists them, or invents events and relationship dynamics solely to benefit the film. Ultimately, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is not so m...
While there isn’t too much in the biopic that actually happened, there are a few kernels of truth throughout Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. Weird Al was indeed interviewed by Oprah Winfrey (who is portrayed by Abbott Elementary star Quinta Brunson in the film) in 1984, though he did not wear his platinum records around his neck when he spoke to the ...
Weird: The Al Yankovic turns the musician’s life into that of a trope-filled drama, one that includes his supposed abuse of drugs and alcohol. By the end of the biopic, Weird Al is drinking heavily, he’s pushed away his band, and is continuously making bad decisions. In reality, however, Weird Al Yankovic doesn’t drink alcohol or take drugs, and hi...
While Daniel Radcliffe was taught how to play the accordion by Weird Al Yankovic himself, and is seen throughout the film with the instrument in hand, the Harry Potter actor did not sing or record any of the parody singer’s music for the film. Rather, Radcliffe lip-syncs the lyrics to the songs, and it’s Weird Al’s voice that is heard when the acto...
Throughout the film, Weird Al’s relationship with his father is fraught with tension, to say the least. Nick doesn’t want his son to play the accordion and stops talking to him when he decides to become a musician. In real life, Nick and Mary Yankovic were very supportive of Weird Al’s musical endeavors. When Weird Al was growing up, his father alw...
The short answer: No. Madonna did not, as Weird: The Al Yankovic Story suggests, come to Weird Al directly with a proposition to make a parody out of her song, “Like a Virgin.” She and Weird Al were also never in a romantic relationship, nor did she push him to do things just so he could come up with parody lyrics to her song. Although the biopic d...
Pablo Escobar, based on the real-life Colombian drug lord (and who is played by Arturo Castro in the film), is rather obsessed with getting Weird Al to sing at his birthday party in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. Pablo Escobar won’t take no for an answer and winds up kidnapping Madonna to force Weird Al to show up as he always intended. Of course, W...
- Senior Critic
Nov 4, 2022 · So there were so many costumes. There are tons of characters in the script, and almost every day we were shooting in a new location. And COVID of course costs money to deal with. We wanted to shoot the movie in 22 days, and the script was 100 pages. So we had to do a lot in prep to make sure we were able to make the days.
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Oct 26, 2022 · Published Oct 26, 2022. It's rare for an artist to be in charge of telling their own story, but it's even rarer for that artist to parody their life in the process. But that's exactly what beloved parody artist Weird Al does in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, which he co-wrote with director Eric Appel. The project began as a Funny or Die sketch a ...
