Link (http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/10/29/porter-wagoner-dies-at-age-eighty-keith-richards-joins-hospital-protest-pete-wentz-plays-himself-on-tv/)

Hollywood actress Hayden Panettiere is set to star in an upcoming 2009 bipoic of punk rock singer Wendy O. Williams, the infamous frontwoman for the band Plasmatics. The film will follow the shock-rocker's life through her troubled upbringing and early New York punk rock scene, ending with her tradgic death.

Producers chose the 18 year-old Heroes star as the lead role to "shock" moviegoers - to live up to Williams name. Film producer Jason Weinberg says, "[Williams] was all about rebellion and shocking people. Why not the Williams legacy shock the world again with Hayden?" Filming is set to begin in early March 2008 with a late 2009 release date. Williams, dubbed the "Queen of Shock Rock", was considered the most controversial and radical woman singer of her time. She committed suicide in 1998 at the age of 49.

uh oh... so does this mean there's going to be a lot of "OMGZZZZZZZZZZ WENDY O'WILLIAMS IZ A RAD RAWK CHIK, SHE'Z DA KWEEN OF PUNCK" people now that there's a biopic on her?

Isn't Hayden a bit young for this movie? Wendy was well into her 30's during the pinnacle of her fame

I would love to see a biopic on the late great Wendy O. Williams, but why in the world is a TEENYBOPPER chosen to play her, you POSEURS????!!!!! :mad:


Wendy has got to be rolling in her grave now. Have to say, to see her play with the Plasmatics and blow up a car on the Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder in 1981 was a total epiphany. :cool:

You're kidding, right?? ohno: That's like Jesse McCartney playing Brian Wilson. BAD idea.