Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne to keep up with the Ricardos in their own biopic
Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne's heavy metal romance will be written by Billy Elliot and Rocketman scribe Tom Hall
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Less than a week after the Being The Ricardos trailer dropped, another biopic about an entertainment business power couple is underway.
After successfully making the leap heavy metal’s number one couple to reality television’s, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne will soon be biting the heads off bats in their very own biopic. Well, actors portraying them will.
Per Variety, the Osbournes will be the subject of an upcoming biopic centered on their storied love affair. It’s a tale as old as time: Man marries manager, and the pair star in a reality show together.
“Our relationship at times was often wild, insane, and dangerous, but it was our undying love that kept us together,” said Sharon Osbourne. “We’re thrilled to partner with Sony Pictures and Polygram to bring our story to the screen.”
Oscar-nominated Billy Elliot scribe Lee Hall will write the untitled biopic. Hall is no stranger to music biopics, having written the Elton John film Rocketman and the Mister Mistoffelees movie Cats.
Sharon and her kids Jack Osbourne and the elusive Amiée Osbourne, who rarely appeared on the reality show that bore her name, will produce, along with Sony and Polygram.
Ozzy and Sharon married in 1982, following his divorce from Thelma Riley and his dismissal from Black Sabbath. Unfortunately, the film will have to play second fiddle to the Mötley Crüe biopic, The Dirt, if they want to include the scene in which Ozzy snorts a line of live ants. Though, we’d love to have both for comparison.
There has been no word yet on casting for the film. In the aforementioned Dirt, Righteous Gemstones star Tony Cavalero played Ozzy. However, Sharon, specifically, wasn’t too pleased with his portrayal. “Come on, this movie is so tacky,” she said earlier this year. “They took a guy from the Nickelodeon channel, and this is a children’s channel. I think this guy acted in children’s movies. Great, trust him he’ll be a good Ozzy.”
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It’s a tale as old as time: Man marries manager, then he tries to murder her, then they star in a reality show together.
Far too much spotlight has been wasted on these two. Ozzy’s been barely there for years, Sharon just props him up so she can keep the money coming in.
I think a lot of ozzy’s “I’m so out of it” is an act, so that when they don’t want to pay royalties (see Daisley, Kerslake, and Lee), he can point the finger at Sharon and pretend he’s not the bad guy.
It wasn’t even that long ago when Sharon Osbourne showed her racist ass on The Talk and had to leave the show in disgrace.
She also fucked with Ozfest one year because she had a personal problem with the singer from Iron Maiden. So halfway through the tour, she chose to turn off the sound system mid-set, in front a few hundred thousand paying fans. She also put Kelly in the front row with a bunch of her friends to egg the band.The best part is that the stage monitors didn’t get turned off, so the band didn’t know the main sound was off & just kept playing. The fans who’d paid money to be there then demanded that Sharon turn the PA back on. The next day she kicked Iron Maiden off the tour, insulting their singer in her press release.Airing out a personal issue in front of paying fans is extremely unprofessional. She needs to be investigated for spousal abuse. Putting someone with Ozzy’s mental deterioration in the public eye as entertainment is just sick.
Say what you want about Ozzy but he’s still relevant in the rock community. “Under the Graveyard” was a pretty big hit (and a pretty good song to boot).
“Man marries manager, and the pair star in a reality show together.”AKA Brian Epstein’s favourite fantasy.
Not the most timely of references, but I loled.
Think they’ll include the attempted strangulations?
Oh good, a film about the least interesting and relevant part of his life.
Any chance we can bring back Laurence Olivier to play Ozzy? Is Cate Blanchett busy? Timothée Chalamet is not picking up his phone. But seriously, folks. I just can’t imagine how this role is not going to ruin someone’s career.
Easily: hire someone whose career is already dead.
During the making of the Bark at the Moon album Sharon strong-armed guitarist Jake E. Lee & bassist Bob Daisley to giving up all their songwriting credits (they wrote a LOT of the album) on the threat of running them out of the music business (Sharon was big enough in the metal community at the time that this was not an idle threat). As revenge the duo wrote “Now You See It (Now You Don’t)“, a song about how Sharon is an evil asshole, and gave it to Ozzy free of context. So, enjoy this song where Ozzy sings about how Sharon is a total bitch.