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1/14/09
This is not about a made for TV small time movie, this is big screen, surround sound, star studded, top of the line, blow the doors off the back of the theater Van Halen Cinema!
Now I want you to tell Van Halen why they should make this movie!
I will deliver your messages...
This is your chance to influence music and movie history.
1/13/09
I want to thank Van Halen for their very gracious words of encouragement!
But to be clear, this is an unauthorized biography project.
1/11/09
The new Van Halen Movie casting survey is now up. I've added options based on your feedback.
1/10/09
Thanks to the folks at Van Halen News Desk for bringing me some love!
Here's something I posted there recently:
Let me be clear, I did not write this to make money. If I thought this was a good plan to make money then I’d be an idiot.
I have no intention of trying to make the movie without the cooperation of the Van Halen family. I don’t even think that would be possible, and even if it were I wouldn’t be interested.
I wrote this purely out of inspired obsession, there was no calculation or business sense to it at all. The most calculated business thing I did was to STOP writing it a few years ago and start writing something else, but it kept calling to me and I couldn’t not write it.
I just love this story.
Yea, you could ask do we need “a movie that reminds us of all that bullshit?”
My point is, it’s not bullshit. There’s a real story behind it that, if we care at all about the legacy and the man, we should want to hear it. And we should want the world, the non-fans to hear it.
To talk of disappointment and “where’s the new music” is to be selfish. You’re telling Ed that he only exists to serve you, that you don’t care about his reasons or humanity.
What I’ve written is my understanding of the story from Ed’s point of view, including his struggles, and that makes it universal. You don’t have to be a fan to relate to it.
Yes, it’s extremely presumptuous of me, but my hope is Ed would want to tell that story, but not to make the fans happy, he’s done enough for us already. (Thank you Ed for all you’ve given us, you owe me nothing).
But he might want to do it for himself, to tell it the way it was. To set the record straight.