It's time to tell the story about how video killed the radio star. The MTV network launched in August of 1981 and the first music video to hit the airwaves was The Buggles' Video Killed the Radio Star. Now the cable channel that once championed music and helped launch the careers and controversy of such stars as Madonna, Britney Spears and more, barely plays music if it's not on top of stupid New Jersey locals tanning or pregnant teens spouting off at the mouth. But that's not stopping Brett Ratner and producer Jimmy Miller (Step Brothers, The Other Guys) from telling the network's rich history and rise to prominence. Ratner isn't officially attached to direct the film, but Variety says he is producing with Miller. The story will be adapted from music journalists Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum's book I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution.
- 3/16/2012
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Brett Ratner has directed music videos for artists like Mariah Carey and Madonna, and now he's hoping to make a movie about the place they debuted. Variety reports that Ratner is in talks with Sony to produce (and potentially direct) an adaptation of the oral history I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution, which tracks the influential music network's early days, long before anyone had heard of Snooki and Pauly D. Go ahead and fantasy-cast the network's first crop of VJs! Jennifer Lawrence as Nina Blackwood? Ellen Page as Martha Quinn?...
- 3/16/2012
- by Kyle Buchanan
- Vulture
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