Between last year’s Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Song Sung Blue, and The Testament of Ann Lee (the best of the bunch), musical biopics show no sign of slowing down, especially not after Antoine Fuqua’s Michael.
More often than not, we’re bombarded with mediocrity, such as Bohemian Rhapsody, I Wanna Dance with Somebody, and Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.
Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner’s Daughter, Jeremy Allen White in Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Taron Egerton in Rocketman all did their own singing, even with the risk of not measuring up to the icons they played who were all still alive when their films came out.