Bill Hicks Biopic (Linklater)

Bill Hicks is my #2 person, so I really, really hope this isn't screwed up. I knew someone had to eventually do this, and I guess Linklater is probably the best choice around. Even if it isn't great, I hope people would revert to actual video (and especially audio shows)... Nothing worse than I hate when someone I don't know talks about Jim Morrison or The Doors inaccurately, and even referencing the awful Oliver Stone movie.

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/richard-linklater-directing-bill-hicks-biopic-focus-1202992649/

Richard Linklater will write and direct an untitled film based on the life of comedian Bill Hicks for Focus Features.

Hicks was raised as a Southern Baptist and began performing comedy in the late 1970s in Texas. He toured extensively during the 1980s, specializing in dark humor and social commentary. A typical joke: “I never got along with my dad. Kids used to come up to me and say, ‘My dad can beat up your dad.’ I’d say ‘Yeah? When?'”

Hicks died of pancreatic cancer in 1994 at the age of 32. Linklater has said publicly that he regretted that he was not able to work with Hicks, who was a fan of Linklater’s Texas-based coming-of-age movie “Dazed and Confused.”