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JOAN JETT hopes RUNAWAYS film is successful, praises Kristen Stewart
from: blog.newsok.com
by BAM
Rocker JOAN JETT is hoping for success for "The RUNAWAYS," the film based on the influential all-female rock band that she co-founded and led from 1975-79.
In an interview with Billboard.com, Jett, who is an executive producer on the film, said "The RUNAWAYS" is "absolutely not a biopic. It's not fact-for-fact. What they did was basically take elements from the RUNAWAYS story and created a parallel narrative."
The film is somewhat based on RUNAWAYS singer Cherie Currie's 1989 memoir "Neon Angel. It starsÊ"Twilight" actress Kristen Stewart as Jett, Dakota FanningÊ(another member of the "Twilight" franchise) as Currie and British actor Michael Shannon as original producer Kim Fowley. Directed by Floria Sigismondi, the film is in post-production and slated for 2010 release.
Jett said watching the filming was "surreal."
"If anything it definitely made me smile. It reinforces my love for the band and the fact I think it was an extremely important band, regardless of our level of success in America. It just reinforces my love of the whole time and of the band and what we did and how it was implausible and improbable at the same time," she told Billboard.com.
The rocker, who also is releasing a greatest hits album next year, said she did someÊcoaching withÊStewart, whoÊreported toÊwork on the projectÊalmost immediately after wrapping the second "Twilight" film, "The Twilight Saga: New Moon." (The sequel, due out in November, is the film in which "Twilight" fans will be introduced to Fanning as baddie vampire Jane.)
"Kristen was so into it, into the whole vibe of doing this," Jett told Billboard.com. "I think she felt a weight and a responsibility to interpret it correctly. She was really serious about it and was watching me and asking me all sorts of question, from speech aspects to watching my body language, watching where I stood, watching my guitar playing. She really worked hard to get it right."
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