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Daltrey still working on movie about Moon's life
08/27/2000

The Dallas Morning News

You can argue all you want whether Keith Moon was rock's greatest drummer or
its sloppiest - or both. But there's no debating that he was one of the most
colorful men to ever whack a high-hat.

Mr. Moon's bizarre sense of humor and outlandish behavior (like driving cars
into hotel swimming pools) attracted as much attention as his brash,
unpredictable drum work. He went through life like some comic movie
character before dying in 1978 from a drug overdose.

And that begs the question: Why hasn't a film been made about the legendary
"Moon the Loon"?

"I've been working on one for 10 years, and it's incredibly difficult to get
good scripts," says Who singer Roger Daltrey. "I keep dumping scripts one
after another, and I'll keep doing that until I get one that really reflects
the man that I knew and loved, one that reflects both his genius and his
failings."

If Mr. Daltrey gets his way, the Moon movie will have a feel similar to Alex
Cox's dark and moving Sid & Nancy, which the singer calls ''the only really
good rock film ever made."

"If you tell people, 'We're making Keith Moon into a movie,' they're like
'Oh, that'll be great - it'll be really funny.' But it can't just be a funny
story, and what's lacking in all the scripts I've read are depth of
character.

"He was one of the most enormous human beings I've ever met in my life in
every sense of the word. He was the most generous, the most funny, and also
sometimes the most cynical, depressed person. He was a man of complete
opposites - and in extraordinary amounts . . . Moon was a roller coaster,
and that's why I think it'll make an interesting film."
- Thor Christensen
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