Meryl Streep to star as Joni Mitchell in upcoming biopic
Could anyone capture the voice and vision of the legendary Joni Mitchell on screen? According to reports, Meryl Streep is about to try.
Producer and music executive Clive Davis apparently confirmed Streep’s casting at a post-Grammys party, and director Cameron Crowe has since referred to Davis’s comments, though neither Streep nor Mitchell has officially spoken on it.
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The project has quietly been in development for several years, with the multi-time Oscar winner long rumoured to be involved. There have also been whispers (via Stereogum) that Anya Taylor-Joy could play a younger version of Mitchell, though those reports remain unverified.
Crowe has previously stressed how central Mitchell herself is in shaping the project. Speaking on The Late Show last year, he explained: “We’ve been working on it for about four years. We have regular meetings where I can ask her anything and she speaks with her heart about all kinds of stuff. It’s a movie that will be not from a distance… This is from her perspective, her life, looking out.”
He also hinted at the depth of material available for the production: “She’s kept all of her costumes, all of her clothes, all of her instruments. She’s even still the landlady of her famous house in Laurel Canyon. So this is a really personal, wonderful look at her life and music.”
Mitchell has always been protective of her story on screen. In 2014, she famously “squelched” a proposed biopic starring Taylor Swift, later remarking in a New York Magazine interview, “I’ve never heard Taylor’s music. I’ve seen her. Physically, she looks similarly small-hipped and high cheekbones. I can see why they cast her. I don’t know what her music sounds like, but I do know this – that if she’s going to sing and play me, good luck.”
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