THE TEASER trailer for Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, starring Daniel Radcliffe, was released on May 3, 2022.
The trailer holds nothing back as Radcliffe steps into the shoes of renowned musical artist, Al Yankovic.
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Who is Al Yankovic?
The new film, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story presents the untold true story of Al Yankovic's rise to fame.
A five-time Grammy Award winner, Yankovic's songs Eat It and Like a Surgeon became two of his top 10 hits, but Yankovic didn't produce chart-topping albums until more than 30 years into his career.
His thirteenth album, Apocolypse, reached No. 9 on Billboard's Top 200 in 2011 and he told Billboard at the time, “I’m very grateful that 30 years into my career, I’m still peaking."
He added, “Part of me starts to rationalize ‘It’s just a number,’ but being on the chart probably means more to me than it rationally should."
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Three years later, Yankovic scored his first No. 1 album on Billboard's Top 200 titled, Mandatory Fun.
It was the first comedy album to reach the top spot since 1963 and was the first to receive the largest sales in a one-week period since 1994.
"If you’d told me 30 years ago this would happen, I never would’ve believed it. If you’d told me 2 WEEKS ago, I never would’ve believed it,” Yankovic tweeted in 2014.
When is the release date?
Yankovic is garnering attention once again for the upcoming film about his life.
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While an official release date has not been set, the biopic is set to be released on the Roku channel later in 2022.
The release date is set to be released on November 4, 2022, according to IMDB.
As a co-writer for the script, Yankovic said he is "absolutely thrilled" that Radcliffe will be portraying him in the film.
Radcliffe is best known for playing the lead character in the iconic Harry Potter franchise.
However, according to Rolling Stone, Yankovic said in a statement in January 2022, "I have no doubt whatsoever that this is the role future generations will remember him for."
CNN reported a press release said that Daniel Radcliffe "holds nothing back, exploring every facet of Yankovic's life, from his meteoric rise to fame with early hits like Eat It and Like a Surgeon to his torrid celebrity love affairs and famously depraved lifestyle."
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What has Daniel Radcliffe said about the film?
Radcliffe is stepping into the shoes and Hawaiian shirt of Al Yankovic and is a role that he says he's taking seriously.
"Wearing the Hawaiian shirt is a huge responsibility that I don't take lightly," he told People, adding, "And I'm honored to finally share with the world the absolutely 100 percent unassailably true story of Weird Al's depraved and scandalous life."
Radcliffe said while hosting The View that working with Yankovic on the Weird Al biopic was a surreal experience, adding, "He's the nicest human, and he was on set every day which is a real pleasure."
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However, re-creating Yankovic's life was a feat, taking a total of 18 days to film, Radcliffe said while hosting The View.
But despite how quickly the movie was filmed, Radcliffe said, "... It was one of the most fun things I have ever done in my life."
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