Appropriately, We Might Not See a Movie About Wham!

If George Michael has his way, a movie about Wham! may never...uh...go-go. Wham's former manager, Simon Napier-Bell, tells The Guardian that "There are several people sniffing around my Wham! film," a proclamation that sounds much dirtier than it probably is. Napier-Bell says that because George Michael controls all of Wham's music, he probably won't consent to it being used in just any script, and possibly in no script at all. Man...that is one really distracting photo. My apologies. Anyway, the band, which burst on the scene as a telegenic pop duo in the early 1980s, gave rise to the craze of "Choose Life" t-shirts, made popular because the phrase "Choose Anonymous Sex in Public Restrooms at the park" is a bitch to fit on the front of a shirt. The movie would cover their "heyday" - 1983 to 1985, but that's pretty much the entire life span of Wham! Michael would find more hits and a fair amount of critical acclaim as a solo artist, but his time in the pranciest band of the 80s was marked by the clever line, "guilty feet have got no rhythm," which has later been proven as a scientific fact. I just have to laugh at the prospect of a Wham! movie. What's the story arc? One talented guy gets really famous, throws his less talented bandmate to the curb, The End? If that's the case, I'd rather see a Simon & Garfunkel movie or at least Hall & Oates. At least we'd get a pre-ironic moustache that way. But the Wham! movie just doesn't seem to make a lot of sense, particularly without the music. Of course, having said that, I know a lot of people who would prefer never having to hear Wham! at any point, particularly in a movie. And for you trivia buffs, because the Guardian article doesn't mention it - showing how truly unimportant he was - the other guy's name is Andrew Ridgeley.

Comments

[Will]

I still remember the day my best friend in high school had an epiphany in the quad at lunch: "Oh my God, I just realized that Wham broke up because Wham broke up!"

This, of course, was about ten years after the fact.

He was a little slow, my friend.

By the way, didn't they make a charming little Rom-com about Wham called Music and Lyrics?

Now that I've seen that picture you attached to this post, I'm in the mood to go rent it.