Caffeinated Clint
Kyle Newman, the Rebel alliance behind “Fanboys”, is working on a biopic of legendary D.J “Wolfman Jack” – there’s enough George Lucas connection (Wolfman was in “American Graffiti”); a doco on “Howard the Duck” could be next? – a film, I presume, the Weinstein Company won’t be releasing.
The film, written by Ernie Cline of “Fanboys”, will be called “Heard it on the X (after the ZZ Topp tune about Wolfman’s Mexican super-powered AM station, XERB)”, Newman tells The Orlando Sentinel. “Dan Fogler from Fanboys would play Wolfman Jack. He does the voice and he’s a very funny guy.”
“It’s a very non-traditional bio-pic” continues Newman. ”We take a look at two weeks in the Wolfman’s life, how he gets on the air down in Mexico, put the finishing touches on his radio persona. He becomes a sort of Robin Hood figure for this community of disenfranchised workers stuck in this radio station. There was a lot of shady stuff going on at this place. The staff take the station back from this Mexican warlord. In the third act, it becomes very over the top. It becomes a legend the way the Wolfman would have told it.
“I call it a Robin Hood Western built around this fascinating, pop-culture changing larger than life radio legend”.
