The new Billy Joel biopic is missing one thing: support from Billy Joel.
is on its way — and the Piano Man himself has nothing to do with it. On Wednesday, Michael Jai White’s Jaigantic Studios greenlit the film, titled A rep for the singer tells that “Billy Joel is not involved with this film project” and that he has no plans to give access to his music and life story.
The film will follow the singer’s early life since being discovered by Irwin Mazur to garnering the attention of Clive Davis in 1972. “These are the real-life events I witnessed first-hand that shaped Billy from a keyboard player in the local Long Island band, the Hassles, into the iconic musician, singer-songwriter, and entertainer who thrills audiences around the world, today,” Mazur told
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