Mick Jagger supported a Rolling Stones film venture that will have starred Ben Stiller and Brad Pitt, however Stiller was unable to persuade the remainder of the band the venture was value their time.
“I am not good at pitching stuff,” the comic admitted on the Howard Stern Present, reflecting on the time within the ’90s that he had the possibility to persuade Rolling Stones band members that his film suggestion was one.
You’ll be able to see the interview under.
Stiller mentioned a producer reached out to him after seeing The Ben Stiller Present, a sketch comedy collection that aired on MTV in 1992, and proposed a film concept that she mentioned originated with Jagger. The movie would have loosely concerned Stiller and Pitt as tremendous followers going wild, “crawling up on the lighting, the rigging, to get near the band” and doing different ill-advised issues at Rolling Stones’ live shows.
Jagger has all the time been a “actual movie man,” as Stiller put it. In 1970 he starred within the movies Ned Kelly and Efficiency, and later appeared within the 1987 movie Working Out of Luck, the place he sarcastically performed one other rock ‘n’ roll star named “Mick.” Additional credit included 1992’s Freejack and George Hickenlooper’s 2001 movie Man From Elysian Fields.
Jagger’s thought was a live performance movie with comedy bits intertwined, and though he had actors on standby, there was one caveat. “The catch was we needed to pitch to the Rolling Stones,” Stiller defined. “Mick acquired us on board however then he was like, however you gotta get everybody else on board.”
The massive second for the pitch got here in Toronto within the early ’90s because the Rolling Stones had been rehearsing at a ladies’ health club. Stiller and collaborator Judd Apatow had been invited to observe earlier than making their case to the band. The pitch was in the end unsuccessful, which Stiller admitted might have been for the most effective. “The concept in all probability would not have labored in execution as a result of individuals would have simply wished to see a Rolling Stones live performance movie,” the comic confessed. “You wanna see a comedy? You see a comedy. You wanna see a live performance movie? You see a live performance movie.
Extra just lately, Stiller has been engaged on the nine-episode collection for Apple TV+, Severance. He additionally has a documentary within the works concerning the “brilliance and humor” of his late mother and father, and Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller.
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