Zep Bio-Pic In The Works
For those of you who've burnt out on endless viewings of The
Song Remains the Same, no matter how cool that Jimmy Page bow solo is after
100 viewings, take heart, a new Led Zeppelin movie is in the works.
The
rights to a feature film based on the 1992 tell-all book by the band's longtime
tour manager, Richard Cole, Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin Uncensored
have been sold by the author for an undisclosed amount to Canterbury Films and
FSO-SOD Communications, a Nogales, Arizona-based magazine publisher
(Progressive Woman, Hispanic Journal, Jewish Business Press), according to
Daily Variety.
Like the book, the movie is expected to follow the
band from its formation in 1968, through its break-up in 1980 following the
death of John "Bonzo" Bonham. No word yet on whether the film will chronicle
their numerous embarrassing post-Bonham reunions, singer Robert Plant's
lukewarm solo albums or Jimmy Page's metal-lite debacles with Plant manquŽ
David Coverdale.
Cole told Variety, "The film could be done any
number of ways. It could certainly be done as a comedy. People laugh at 'This
Is Spinal Tap,' but (director) Rob Reiner was spot-on. That's exactly how it is
on the road.