{"id":406074,"date":"2026-02-03T18:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/406074\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T18:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:50:07","slug":"meryl-streep-cast-as-joni-mitchell-in-new-biopic-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/406074\/","title":{"rendered":"Meryl Streep cast as Joni Mitchell in new biopic | Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Meryl Streep is to play Joni Mitchell in a forthcoming biopic of the singer-songwriter directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/cameron-crowe\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Crowe<\/a>, according to record executive Clive Davis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Davis confirmed the rumours surrounding the casting at his pre-Grammys party on Saturday, reports Rolling Stone. Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/anya-taylor-joy\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anya Taylor-Joy<\/a> was linked to the project in the role of the younger Mitchell, as was Streep\u2019s Mamma Mia! co-star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/jan\/23\/i-can-understand-being-brought-to-your-knees-amanda-seyfried-on-obsession-devotion-and-the-joy-of-socks\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda Seyfried<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Crowe, whose best-known film is the music drama Almost Famous, has been attached to the project for some years, and in 2023 said that he hoped for a release date before 2026. Speaking three years ago, Crowe explained that \u2013 unlike recent films based on brief periods in the life of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen \u2013 the film is not based on a biographical book about the star, but rather Mitchell\u2019s own account of her life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cIt\u2019s Joni\u2019s life, not [seen] through anybody else\u2019s prism,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s through her prism. It\u2019s the characters who impacted her life that you know and a lot that you don\u2019t know. And the music is so cinematic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Streep has previously received two Oscar nominations for playing real-life musicians: the violinist Roberta Guaspari in 1999\u2019s Music of the Heart and the titular character in Florence Foster Jenkins, about the life of the amateur singer, in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meryl Streep is to play Joni Mitchell in a forthcoming biopic of the singer-songwriter directed by Cameron Crowe,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-406074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}