{"id":46707,"date":"2025-09-16T13:11:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T13:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/meryl-streep-and-anya-taylor-joy-may-play-joni-mitchell-in-biopic\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T13:11:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T13:11:36","slug":"meryl-streep-and-anya-taylor-joy-may-play-joni-mitchell-in-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/meryl-streep-and-anya-taylor-joy-may-play-joni-mitchell-in-biopic\/","title":{"rendered":"Meryl Streep and Anya Taylor-Joy May Play Joni Mitchell in Biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A biopic about <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/joni-mitchell\/\">Joni Mitchell <\/a>is coming, according to director Cameron Crowe, but at the moment, it&#8217;s unclear who will portray the Canadian singer-songwriter.<\/p>\n<p>However, two actresses are rumored for the job: <a href=\"https:\/\/screencrush.com\/tags\/meryl-streep\/\" target=\"_blank\">Meryl Streep<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/screencrush.com\/tags\/anya-taylor-joy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anya Taylor-Joy<\/a>, who would, presumably, play Mitchell at different points of her career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can&#8217;t confirm that,&#8221; Crowe recently told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/13\/magazine\/cameron-crowe-interview.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a>. &#8220;I wish I could.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Streep did <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/joni-mitchell-elton-john-meryl-streep\/\">appear on stage<\/a> with Mitchell at one of her Los Angeles concerts last October, helping to sing a cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/elton-john\/\">Elton John<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;I&#8217;m Still Standing,&#8221; but she has not appeared in a feature-length film since 2021&#8217;s <em>Don&#8217;t Look Up<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3>When Will the Biopic Arrive?<\/h3>\n<p>Crowe admitted that there&#8217;s not much he can say about the upcoming film yet, but confirmed it will be made next year in 2026 \u2014 &#8220;Soon I\u2019ll be able to speak more definitively about who&#8217;s in it and how we&#8217;re gonna do it and everything,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Crowe also explained that he&#8217;s been\u00a0visiting\u00a0with Mitchell, whom he considers a friend, on a consistent basis for some time, interviewing her about her life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been incredibly inspiring,&#8221; he said, &#8220;the most I&#8217;ve interviewed anybody, the deepest-tissue kind of conversations I&#8217;ve had with any artist, and I&#8217;ve found it invigorating and can&#8217;t wait to make the movie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>READ MORE:\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/joni-mitchell-underrated-songs\/?utm_source=tsmclip&amp;utm_medium=referral\">Underrated Joni Mitchell: The Most Overlooked Track From Each LP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crowe emphasized that his goal is to portray Mitchell&#8217;s life &#8220;from her point of view.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody\u2019s kind of phobic about the term &#8216;biopic,&#8217; but a biographical story about somebody should give you the feeling \u2014 like, a Joni Mitchell movie should feel like a Joni Mitchell album,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Be good to the people that have been there as fans all along. That&#8217;s the best road to telling a biographical story about a musician. That&#8217;s the Joni Mitchell dream.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"photogallery-wrapper blog-photogallery \">\n<h2 class=\"photogallery-title\">Joni Mitchell Year-by-Year Photos 1965-2023<\/h2>\n<div class=\"photogallery-description\">\n<p>Nearly six decades-worth of images from Mitchell&#8217;s pioneering career.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Allison Rapp<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/rest\/carbon\/api\/scripts.js?mver=160&#038;gver=6&#038;bid=295&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fbtloader.com%2Ftag%3Fo%3D5642230212591616%26upapi%3Dtrue&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.p-n.io%2Fpushly-sdk.min.js%3Fdomain_key%3DmxuuNIMSzp6MHphJEoAGlLFQ3qmwQguzkGZl&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Ftownsquare.media%2Fpublic%2Fresources%2Fjs%2Fpubcid.min.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fplatform.twitter.com%2Fwidgets.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fapis.google.com%2Fjs%2Fplatform.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.facebook.net%2Fen_US%2Fsdk.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.pinterest.com%2Fjs%2Fpinit.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer data-osano=\"ESSENTIAL\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/meryl-streep-anya-taylor-joy-joni-mitchell-biopic-casting\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A biopic about Joni Mitchell is coming, according to director Cameron Crowe, but at the moment, it&#8217;s unclear who will portray the Canadian singer-songwriter&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rock","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}