WATCH: Madonna’s “bad influence” is all over the new trailer for the Weird Al biopic
Madonna already has a buzzy biopic on the way, but the Queen Of Pop’s star shines so brightly that now she’s stealing the spotlight in another biopic entirely.Yes, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is nominally all about the accordion-toting song satirist (his name’s in the title), but the film’s new, full-length trailer gives an awful lot of screen time to Madge and her apparent “bad influence” on Yankovic.Produced by Funny Or Die and coming this fall to The Roku Channel, of all places, Weird finds Daniel Radcliffe donning a curly wig and countless Hawaiian shirts to play the comedic musician.
By telling the story of Yankovic’s “troubled” childhood and “tumultuous” rise to fame in melodramatic fashion, the film sets out to parody the music biopic subgenre to wonderfully weird ends.Related: Wait, is Daniel Radcliffe about to make us thirsty for Weird Al?
Help! We’re confusedBut no matter how hard Radcliffe’s abs might try to steal our attention (and they are trying—really, really hard), this new clip is all about Madonna.
Played here by Evan Rachel Wood in full Like A Virgin-era attire, the icon comes knocking on Yankvoic’s door to ask if he’ll parody one of her songs.
