The film about David Bowie, who died aged 69 in 2016, is expected to shed light on the music legend’s raunchy private life during his swift rise to fame in the 1970s
Hollywood bosses are embroiled in a bidding war over a biopic of David Bowie, it is reported.
The film is likely to lift the lid on the music legend’s private life during his rise to fame in the 1970s, a period during which Bowie had several top ten hits in the UK. Movie studios have expressed interest in taking up the option to turn the autobiography of Suzi Ronson, wife of Bowie’s right-hand man Mick Ronson, into a film, and so it has been auctioned for a deal.
The stylist helped create the singer’s famous Ziggy Stardust look, Bowie’s stage persona during 1972 and 1973. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars became Bowie’s second most popular album in terms of record sales.
“The book has now been auctioned to be made into a major motion picture. It hasn’t been bought but we are hoping it will be soon and it will be a great movie about the Ziggy Stardust days and his rise to fame,” Suzi said.
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Her book, Me And Mr Jones: My Life With David Bowie And The Spiders From Mars, was published last year. In it, the hairdresser refers to one-night stand with Bowie which happened while he was still married to his first wife Angie.
Speaking to The Sun, Suzi added: “The bedroom at his home was pink with a gold ceiling. Everybody thought he was so gay. I was curious about him. I think Angie set me up… David called me and said: ‘Why don’t you come over and do my hair?’ So I went up to London, had a great meal and he kind of seduced me.”
No further details about the big-budget film have been disclosed, and are unlikely to be until a contract is secured amid the Hollywood auction. It will therefore be released at least ten years after Bowie’s death, following an 18-month journey with cancer. The music superstar was 69 when he passed away in New York City on January 10, 2016.
Bowie’s own secret last project was discovered locked in his study by archivists – and it was a musical about the 18th century. Called The Spectator, its entire existence was unknown to even his closest friends but now the notes have now been donated to the V&A Museum, with the rest of Bowie’s archive.
Shared with the BBC, the notes and an accompanying notebook shows Bowie’s fascination with the development of art and satire in 18th Century London, as well as stories of criminal gangs including the notorious thief “Honest” Jack Sheppard.