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Al Yankovic is hitting the large time within the new trailer for the parody artist’s parody biopic. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story will star Daniel Radcliffe as Weird Al himself and and inform the not-so-true story of Al’s well-known life. The film is ready for launch on The Roku Channel streaming service on Nov. 4.
Weird’s trailer runs by means of among the typical touchstones you may anticipate in a musician biopic and places them by means of a fittingly foolish Weird Al filter. There are scenes from Al’s childhood the place his mother and father fear about his Polka obsession, a sequence the place he amazes his pals with an improvised rendition “My Bologna,” and his descent into strife and destroy because of … Madonna (Evan Rachel Wood). There’s even the presence of a suspicious older promoter (Dr. Demento, performed by Rainn Wilson) who needs to make use of Al to assist him hit it large. All of it’s performed as much as the ridiculous diploma you’d anticipate from a film a couple of man who made his identify writing parody songs.
The film additionally stars Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary) as Oprah Winfrey, Thomas Lennon (Reno 911!), Toby Huss (Halt and Catch Fire), Julianna Nicholson (I, Tonya), and Spencer Treat Clark (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.). Weird is directed by Eric Appel (Silicon Valley) and written by Appel and Al Yankovic himself.
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