Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger is doing the press rounds. He’s out there promoting his new album with the Stones, “Foreign Tongues,” which arrives on July 10.
When speaking with British GQ, Jagger was asked about the idea of a Stones biopic. It makes sense. The Beatles have a lot of them. Queen and Michael Jackson have them, too. So, what’s taking so long for a Rolling Stones biopic? Also, would Jagger even want one?
In the interview, Jagger was asked if he’d like to see that “kind of treatment” for the Stones. He seemed open to it. He simply said, “Yeah, it interests me.”
“I don’t want to impart it to you, but, I know how I see it,” he added of a possible movie. “There’s lots of ways of doing biopics.”
Then, talking about the Bob Dylan film A Complete Unknown, Jagger said, “So most of the time when you do a biopic, you do one small section of someone’s life bookended by some other stuff. Take the Bob Dylan movie. You do the moment when Bob went electric.”
“You’d have to think, what are you going to zero in on?” he added. “And where’s your two years of interest? I mean that Bob Dylan one was two years, [the] James Brown one that I produced was slightly more.” That reference is to 2014’s Get on Up.
When talking about what part of the Stones’ career he’d like the film to cover, Jagger wasn’t sure. “I don’t know which section, because it’s a long period,” Jagger said, which is true.
He also said that he had no idea who he’d like to see play him in a biopic. So, while fans have to wait on the biopic, they won’t have to wait on that new album, which is out July 10.