A biopic about “Bizarre Al” Yankovic is ready to premiere on the Roku Channel this fall. And in a brand new trailer for Bizarre: The Al Yankovic Story, viewers get their first glimpse of Daniel Radcliffe starring as Yankovic.
“Anybody received an accordion?” he says dramatically within the trailer, which you’ll be able to watch beneath.
“Sporting the Hawaiian shirt is a big duty that I don’t take frivolously,” Radcliffe, greatest recognized for his lead function within the Harry Potter motion pictures, informed Uproxx about his function. “I’m honored to lastly share with the world the completely one hundred pc unassailably true story of Bizarre Al’s wicked and scandalous life.”
Cowritten by Yankovic and director and producer Eric Appel, the movie paperwork Yankovic’s rise to fame and his adventures within the leisure trade. It additionally options a number of of his hit songs, together with “Eat It” and “Like a Surgeon,” which will be heard within the trailer.
An official launch date for the film hasn’t been introduced but.
“When my final film UHF got here out in 1989, I made a solemn vow to my followers that I’d launch a serious movement image each 33 years, like clockwork. I’m very comfortable to say we’re on schedule,” Yankovic mentioned in an earlier press launch. “And I’m completely thrilled that Daniel Radcliffe might be portraying me within the movie. I’ve little question in any respect that that is the function future generations will keep in mind him for.”
Yankovic is at the moment touring on an expansive 133-date trek that can wrap up in October.
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