Conformable variety, Pete Davidson signed to play the lead role I slept with Joey Ramone, a biopic about the punk star for Netflix. This is a promotion from Davidson’s last appearance in a biographical film, as he didn’t even have a chance to play one of the members of Mötley Crüe on Netflix. Misery (he played the straight man in front of a bunch of wild rock stars as a record label guy), so it seems like a good indication of his star and the public figure who has reached a certain level of rockstarness that he’s actually getting to play the rockstar this time.
I slept with Joey Ramone is based on the book of the same name by Joey Ramone’s brother, Mickey Leigh, and has the blessing of the family estate. In a statement, Adam Fogelson of STXfilms (who produces the film alongside Netflix) said the original book is a “great rock anthem” that will now make “an equally great rock biopic” that is “separate from a universal family story. Jason Orley, who directed Davidson Adolescence of the big time leading him and he and Davidson write the adaptation themselves.