Shailene Woodley’s Janis Joplin biopic follows the singer’s final days (unique)

Legendary songwriter and musician Linda Perry, who’s working with actress Shailene Woodley to deliver Janis Joplin‘s life story to the massive display screen, is singing the star’s praises in an unique assertion to Leisure Weekly concerning the biopic’s plot particulars.

After Woodley revealed Wednesday on Stay With Kelly and Mark that she was working with Perry — who was as soon as rumored to play Joplin in a beforehand introduced biopic — on getting ready for the challenge, Perry tells EW by way of a consultant that she’s excited to observe the 32-year-old deliver the rock icon’s story to viewers.

“I have been ready a long time for this film to be made. There aren’t any phrases to convey how honored I’m to be included in what I imagine to be a uncooked and trustworthy look into Janis Joplin’s final days,” Perry, 59, explains within the assertion, saying that the movie will chronicle Joplin’s closing days earlier than her demise from a heroin overdose in 1970 at age 27.

Perry continues: “Shailene Woodley’s emotional dedication and dedication to Janis is inspiring. I imagine her! Shailene lives for the artwork and I can’t consider a greater particular person to painting such a robust, emotional, and complicated artist.”

Woodley, who first introduced in early September that she would produce and star within the untitled biopic movie, stated on Stay that she found she may actually sing throughout preparation for the film, for which she collaborated with Perry.

“I am not like a skilled singer, however I really feel and I can sing in my bathe. It seems I may sing outdoors of the bathe, which I did not actually know till I began engaged on the Janis challenge, and dealing with Linda Perry, who’s a tremendous music producer and musician herself,” Woodley stated on the present. “She’s actually inspired me and helped me discover my middle and my very own voice, which is unimaginable.”

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EW has reached out to representatives for Woodley for extra remark.

Perry was amongst many who had been, at one time, purported to star in motion pictures about Joplin, with pop singer-songwriter Pink additionally rumored to play Joplin at one level.

Previous to Joplin’s demise, she rose to prominence as a notable rock singer whose artistry outlined a particular period in American popular culture, along with her posthumous solo album, Pearl, ultimately rocketing to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for over two months.

A launch date and additional casting particulars for Woodley’s Joplin biopic have but to be introduced.