Producer Rory Rosegarten (Everybody Loves Raymond) is in talks with Fox Searchlight about filming a biopic of the seminal New York punk band the Ramones. In 2006, Rosegarten bought the film rights for the unreleased book I Slept With Joey Ramone. The memoir, set to be published in December, is a collaboration between punk writer Legs McNeil and Joey's brother, Mickey Leigh. Rosegarten has also struck a deal with Ramone's estate to use the band's music in the film.
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As a fan of McNeil's 1997 punk history book Please Kill Me, I'm looking forward to the new memoir. But I'm not sure how I feel about the Ramones being portrayed in a movie by anyone else but the Ramones.
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