Roger Daltrey provides encouraging update on Keith Moon biopic: “I want this to be right”
The Who frontman Roger Daltrey has shed new light on the upcoming biopic on the band’s late drummer, Keith Moon.
The film has been discussed by Daltrey for several years now, but has still yet to enter production. However, now it appears that a corner is close to being turned, and it may, finally, materialise.
Speaking to Rolling Stone in a new interview, Daltrey shared, “We’re working on the director’s script at the moment and hopefully we’ll get a green light before the end of July.”
However, The Who frontman is well aware that biopics are all the craze at the moment, and doesn’t want the film to be canon.
He added, “Getting a film together, especially biopics, without falling into all the cliched traps is not an easy thing to do, and I want this to be right.”
Daltrey then insisted that he won’t be going ahead with the project unless it meets his high standards and does Moon’s story justice, explaining, “I’ll get one chance to do this, and I want to make sure it’s done well. I’d rather have it not ever out than have it out and be a bad film.”
While Daltrey’s latest comments surrounding the biopic are encouraging, it was first reported way back in 2022 that the movie was set to begin shooting.
Then, in 2023, Daltrey vowed that the film “will be made”, and shared, “I’m waiting on a reply from a director that I was talking to prior to starting writing the script. I’m very pleased with the script.”
Now, three years later, it does seem like the film is in the same position, but fingers crossed that Daltrey gets his wish and it gets the green light in July.
Despite commencing on their farewell tour in 2025, it could become a busy time again for The Who in the near future.
Elsewhere in the new interview, Daltrey clarified they “are not retired”, shared his hopes to record another album, and even return to the stage once again.
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