Bob Marley Movie This Way Comes

That Ray Charles movie brought in a lot of green. Although Charles may have known it'd be a money-maker, the green reference was completely lost on him.

That Bob Dylan movie got rave reviews all over the place. It had a bunch of taped-down girls pretending to be him, and critics went bananas. It's a simple recipe really, make a film about a musical fellow and you're sure to walk the red carpet at least once before the fall leaves fade.

Now it's Bob Marley's turn. He's about to get his own sure-fire critically acclaimed biopic made, and Hollywood is abuzz with anticipation. You could be in it - if you look a lot like head lice.

We heard the script is gonna deal mostly with what it was like to live on Bob's head. A little tiny journal was found by the guy that embalmed him, and the present script has been derived from that. It's just what we heard.

Bob Marley died when Melanoma spread to his lungs and brain at the age of 36. Now that you know the end you may think there's not much point in watching the up-coming biopic based on his widow Rita Marley's book No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley. You're probably right.

But that won't stop people from making his movie anyway. The rights to said book have been scooped up by The Weinstein Company, who we heard envision turning it into a Star Wars type saga, except the force is a doobie and Luke is portrayed by thousands of head-inhabiting insects. Rita says of the forthcoming film:

"Our lives began in a government yard in Trenchtown with hopes of reaching the world through music and through dreams.  I wrote my book to tell my story—of the dreams we shared and those days we spent living and believing in our hope.  I saw it and now we get to tell it through our movie."

The impending film news will no doubt upset the Banshee that sued Marley's dead body for child-feeding money a bit ago. It was Bob Marley and the Banshees wasn't it? Is that what they called themselves? Furthermore the BBC will be shocked if they make it to the end of the film and see that the king of reggae is apparently not alive and available for interviews right now.

When this movie comes to be there's only one question we think must be answered. That being - if Bob Marley was dead, then why are we pretty sure he had such a successful career playing the role of Mr. T on the A-Team from '83 - '86.

Answer that, screen guild writer.

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