There is no doubt about it: The current fever that Antoine Fuqua's Michael has been generating worldwide is certain to unleash another avalanche of biopics the way that F. Gary Gray's Straight Outta Compton began in 2015 and was taken even further a notch by Brian Singer's Bohemian Rhapsody three years later.
And sure: Cases like Michael Gracey's Better Man have proven that even works with great critical reception don't necessarily translate to equivalent box office gross due to the obscurity of the artist outside it's main territory (and a couple of others).
So lo and behold today's high life dilemma after it's been over five years since the legendary duo's break up: Would that project thrive around the world and make it to the Top 10 list, or would it short circuit into disappointment territory?
by 2tanic
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I think it would do poorly tbh
Domestically or…. Around the world.
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I’d go just for the 2007 Coachella reenactment
They weren’t that popular to be worthy of a biopic.
They’re better off doing a 4K re-release of Alive 2007
Probably around numbers similar to the Bruce Springsteen biopic.
Literally the only thing I remember about these guys is the episode of The Colbert Report they were supposed to be on but bailed, which led to something fairly funny and likely helped him get the Late Show job. Legendary is not really the word. It would not do well.
Probably as good as that Monkey movie about Robbie Williams
The traditional biopic formula would be hard to do with two protagonists who have rarely shown their faces. I don’t think Daft Punk would sign off on that either. But something more experimental could be creative and fun. Perhaps they would be good candidates for a Lego biopic like Pharrell Williams got, although I don’t think that did well enough at the box office to warrant another one.
They have some iconic tracks, but they’re two guys who literally hid the faces behind robot masks for twenty years, they’re not the best act for a conventional biopic. Two guys at a turntable doesn’t really light up the screen the same way, say, Freddie Mercury at Live Aid does.
You could probably do an interesting film about them, but I couldn’t see it being a Michael style smash hit by any means. They’d be a deeply weird choice for such a film.
It would probs do 1 billion in reddit karma
They should write a fictional biopic, as if they really were robots.