In 2019, when Boy George announced his biopic, he mentioned that he wanted Sophie Turner to play him. Now that biopic is becoming more of a reality. George’s film now has a title —Karma Chameleon because of course — and finds the singer saying that “there are rumours of Keanu Reeves popping in,” according to Deadline. Whether that’s true or not remains to be seen, but the film, which is produced by Millennium Media, is tentatively set to begin filming in London and Bulgaria. The musical drama will have full access to the singer’s library of music and the band’s biggest hits, which include “Do You Really Want To Hurt Me,” “Church of the Poison Mind” and “I’ll Tumble 4 Ya.” Boy George’s life has all the ingredients for an engrossing biopic: excess, drug abuse, the ad...
Boy George has been quite productive during quarantine. During a recent visit to the Grounded With Louis Theroux podcast, the Culture Club singer revealed he’s written “six or seven albums” worth of new music while in lockdown. “I’ve written so much music I’ve got enough for six or seven albums,” he divulged before admitting it might not all be quality material. “I’m not saying every single thing is good, but I signed a deal just before Christmas with a company called Primary Wave, whose job it is to go out and place your music in movies,” George explained. “I own copyright with them. It’s a new experience for me to own music.” “I don’t own any of the stuff I did in the ’80s – the publishers can do what they want with it and they do do what they want with it,” he added. And that...