I feel like biopics worked for the older generation like James Brown, Tupac, Biggie, Elvis, N.W.A., etc. because there was no social media and they were more exclusive. Celebrities were more hightened back in the day because of this. You had thousands of people outside Michael jackson's hotel just to see him. So seeing their story on the big screen played by someone else isn't that jarring.

But I wonder if biopics would work for modern day artists in this social media age? We see artists nowadays more then we ever have because of the advancement of technology. I couldn't imagine someone playing Kendrick Lamar, Drake, or Kanye on the big screen for example. We've just seen too much of them. You think biopics are a dead genre for the future artists? I feel like documentaries are the way to go now like the Kanye west or Lil baby documentary

Nah I don’t think so but the person has to be worthy of the biopic lol

I'd say Kanye or Kendrick is worthy of one but I can't imagine anyone playing them lol. We just seen too much of em

there's more happening behind the scenes than any of us know, so yes.

people might feel differently in like 50 years though. and yeah there is stuff from social media etc but that doesnt necessarily mean itll all stay in the public interest decades from now

im not really a big fan of music biopics anyway tbh

Honestly a Drake biopic would be cool but would prob lend itself better to a series when it’s all said and done for him

Too many eras

But wouldn't it be harder to suspend disbelief and have an actor play an artist these days? I feel like we see too much of artists so it would be hard to take it seriously

Weeknd biopic would go crazy

Homeless to super bowl in 10 years

I think they’ll work still. It looks kinda weird to think of it for modern artists since there all alive currently. Like all give best biopics within music was made like 10-15 years after their death. The only one that would be a classic for us would be Kanye

Also I love music biopics but documentaries are waaaaaay better and more interesting. That latest Janet doc is so good

It depends on who the artist is. If it's an artist that isn't as mainstream and with very little celebrity presence it can be done.

If it's Drake or Kanye, it would be much harder but it would be hilarious to watch.

If it's worth telling yes but some artists like Drake or Kanye just have too much to tell it should be a series

our stars nowadays don’t have nearly as interesting life stories

I'm gonna write and direct Kanye's biopic.

It’s sad to say but that King Von biopic is a gold mine

Wayne deserves one

S*** would be so biased lol

I worded that wrong I believe they can work but the person has to be worthy it’s been a lot of artist to pass recently so I could see it happening tbh

A lot of artist wouldnt have that interesting of a movie which honestly is a good thing

If you live a pretty normal healthy life ur life likely isnt gonna be movie worthy

Like a kendrick lamar movie would be boring lowkey, he was a great rapper and outside of that just kind of a normal dude, wow great movie plot

Kanye would have a pretty crazy movie with nothing too bad

But a lot of movies are because the artist had a violent life, or a d*** problem

Juice WRLD's documentary is essentially like a vlog collection so I imagine a lot of documentaries are just gonna be like this just videos of the artists living their life and no commentary

Edit: Was confused about what a biopic is. We definitely need "Runaway" a Kanye West biopic.

Yeah ill watch a documentary on damn near anybody

A movie is another thing

Kendrick biopic based on GKMC would be a classic

I said after watching Straight Out of Compton came out their should be a musical universe that exists similar to MCU would be huge imo

that’d be too meta

a cinematic universe based off our world