Biopic Ramones. Martin Scorsese Adds a Biopic About The Ramones to His To-Do List. Giving his background in music, do you think Martin Scorsese is a good fit for helming a Ramones biopic?
Is the time right for a Ramones biopic? During their two-decade run, The Ramones were a well-oiled machine of leather-jacket-clad punk provocateurs. Fox is developing a biopic around the rock group The Ramones based on the memoir I Slept with Joey Ramone.
During their two-decade run, The Ramones were a well-oiled machine of leather-jacket-clad punk provocateurs.
Chief among their plans is a feature-length biopic directed by Martin Scorsese.
Now the Ramones, traditionally dubbed "the godfathers of punk", are to receive the big-screen Hollywood treatment in a biopic entitled I Slept. Martin Scorsese will start working on The Ramones biopic after he wraps production on his film Silence next year. Martin Scorsese is attached to direct a biopic about the rock band the Ramones Earlier this year, Tommy Ramone (born Thomas Erdelyi), the last surviving member of the original Ramones lineup.