MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee spoke to Gary Graff of GMI Rock News about the long-awaited film adaptation of the band's biography "The Dirt - Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band". The project is being helmed by "Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa" director Jeff Tremaine and is produced by LBI Entertainment's Rick Yorn and Julie Yorn, along with 10th Street Entertainment and Erik Olsen. Amanda Adelson is co-producing. Tom Kapinos ("Californication") took care of the script. Lee and MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx recently attended a read-through of the script with Tremaine and were impressed with what they saw. "Can I tell you it was the most fucking insanely surreal experience I've ever sat through, y'know," Lee told GMI Rock News (hear audio below). "I sat through probably two hours and change of literally watching people act and play through this two-hour-plus movie of your
of 30 years of your life that went by in two hours, and I was just like, 'What the fuck?! That's insane. This movie is insane.' Even just the way the movie starts, you're like, 'How the hell are we gonna rate this thing, triple R?'" According to Lee, the film will be cast in July and won't include any big stars acting as the CRÜE members. "We're going with all unknowns," he said. "I think that's crucial here, too. Getting known actors would not do anybody or the film or the band or any of that stuff justice. I think it would be watching a well-known actor play Vince [Neil] or myself or Nikki or Mick [Mars] would be weird, because all of those other movies they've done would be attached to that character, and it would be real hard to remove those. There's a lot of up-and-coming young actors that are fucking amazing, actually." The actors who are cast will then join the band on tour. "I can just imagine some 25-year-old actor getting the part and being sent on the road to hang out and study us," Lee told GMI Rock News. "Wow, what a trip! They're gonna definitely come back a different animal."
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