“Weird Al” Yankovic cemented himself into popular culture after his comedic debut within the late ’70s. The multitalented comic is thought for his artistic parodies of well-liked songs resembling Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” and Coolio’s “Gangsta Paradise.” Yankovic earned numerous awards and accolades over the course of his profession, together with 5 Grammy Awards for greatest comedy album and greatest idea music video. Several of the comic’s albums are additionally licensed platinum and gold. With such an esteemed legacy, it solely is smart that Yankovic is lastly getting the biopic therapy.
“Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” starring Daniel Radcliffe, coming to The Roku Channel, is an “unexaggerated true story” that traces the comic and musician’s profession. It additionally stars Evan Rachel Wood as pop icon Madonna, and “Abbott Elementary” star/ creator Quinta Brunson because the incomparable Oprah Winfrey.
The movie, which parodies conventional music biopics, begins streaming on Nov. 4. But if you’d like a preview of what to anticipate, scroll forward to see what the remainder of the solid seems to be like subsequent to their real-life counterparts.
