Like the Scorsese debacle, this is a huge opportunity, the chance to make a film about a time and place and a group of talented drugged up musicians creating one the best rock recordings ever made. The reality of the situation down there that summer was, it was hot, it was soaked in drugs and music, they were outcasts, they dressed in heroin chic, they broke the rules, it was a soap opera. It was pure rock n roll.
My guess is, and I hope I'm wrong, Hollywood will turn out a bag o shite glamourising everything, focussing on all the wrong things and using all the wrong actors - they'll @#$%& it up beyond belief like they usually do. Branson, for god's sake give it to the Brits to make and don't miss the opportunity to make a classic film!

'some things, well, I can't refuse'