Musical biopics: Who do bookies think are the three most likely candidates?

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With The Beatles having cast their Fab Four and announcing four separate biopics, and Michael Jackson's biopic set for release later this year, who to bookies think are due for their silver screen adaptation?

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00:00Who here loves a good musical biopic? Show of hands.

00:05Yeah, I thought so. Quite a few of you there.

00:08There's nothing quite like watching the rise, fall, and maybe the rise again of a music legend,

00:13is there? Well, let's be honest, sometimes we're also here for the rise, fall, rise, and then...

00:19You know, we love a good redemption arc, but a bit of schadenfreude?

00:24Yeah, look, I'm one of those. Guilty as charged. I hold my hands up there completely.

00:29So, with not one, but... Wait, what? He's doing four! Okay, whoa.

00:35So, with not one, but four Beatles biopics on the way from Sam Mendes, seriously, four,

00:41and Michael Jackson's long-awaited biopic coming out later this year,

00:45it's giving people a kind of buzz what the next great musical biopic is going to be. And,

00:52you know, if there's a buzz, you know that bookies are laying odds and you can put money on it.

00:57Now, according to gambling.com, the current favorite for the biopic treatment is...

01:07The late George Michael, with odds currently at 11 to 8. And I'm sure many of you remember

01:13those rumors about Theo James playing him a couple of months ago, maybe even a year ago now. Well...

01:20Mariah Carey is also high on the list at 6 to 4, and the artist formerly known as the artist

01:26known as Prince, or whatever he was calling himself at the time, comes in third at 15 to 8.

01:34But you can find the full top 10 list in our article, but for now, the important question.

01:41Who do I want to see get the biopic treatment? If that is a real issue. Okay, well, I used to be all

01:48about a Kurt Cobain biopic, and last days does not count, I'm sorry. But honestly, I'm way more

01:55interested in the Courtney Love movie right now. Think about it, dealing with Kurt's death,

01:59the drug allegations, while pregnant, becoming Hollywood Courtney, and her whole pre-whole

02:05history. Now that's gold. Yeah, a Courtney Love biopic? I'm officially sold on that.

02:12But what about you? Who's your dream biopic subject? Drop a suggestion in the comments

02:17wherever you've seen this video, and let's have a nice civil conversation. I'm not budging on

02:23the Courtney Love thing at all.

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