VH1 is officially making its mark on the film world ... at least that is the plan.
Over the next several years the popular music television station will work to create a 'franchise' of biopics about musicians and pop culture icons. Firs ton their list - 90's sensation TLC.
While no release date has been scheduled for their initial offering they have already hired Kate Lanier to pen the script. Lanier also wrote the stations initial venture into scripted programming earlier this year with the show 'Single Ladies'. The two surviving members of the group, Chilli and Tionne 'T-Boz' Watkins, will serve as consultants on the project and executive producers.
While TLC had a career journey worth creating a film around, I feel that this 'franchise' could quickly become another version of 'E: True Hollywood Story!' - only this one would cost $10 to see. Hmmmmm
About Stephen Davis
I owe this hobby/career to the one and only Stephanie Peterman who, while interning at Fox, told me that I had too many opinions and irrelevant information to keep it all bottled up inside. I survived my first rated R film, Alive, at the ripe age of 8, it took me months to grasp the fact that Julia Roberts actually died at the end of Steel Magnolias, and I might be the only person alive who actually enjoyed Sorority Row…for its comedic value of course. While my friends can drink you under the table, I can outwatch you when it comes iconic, yet horrid 80s films like Adventures in Babysitting and Troop Beverly Hills. I have no shame when it comes to what I like, and if you have a problem with that, then we’ll settle it on the racquetball court. I see too many movies to actually win any film trivia contest, so don’t waste your first pick on me. My friends rent movies from my bookcase shelves, and one day I do plan to start charging. I long to live in LA, where my movie obsession will actually help me fit in, but for now I am content with my home in Austin. I prefer indies to blockbusters, Longhorns to Sooners and Halloween to Friday the 13th. I miss the classics, as well as John Ritter, and I hope to one day sit down and interview the amazing Kate Winslet.
