Grab your accordions because Daniel Radcliffe is going to play “Weird Al” Yankovic in an upcoming biopic. Radcliffe, 32, will star in “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story”, a Roku Original movie from Funny Or Die and Tango that will stream exclusively on the Roku Channel.
Yankovic will pen the script alongside Funny Or Die’s Eric Appel who will also direct the picture. Appel helmed a short film of the same name over a decade ago for Funny Or Die.
Production is set to begin in Los Angeles in February. “When my last movie ‘UHF’ came out in 1989, I made a solemn vow to my fans that I would release a major motion picture every 33 years, like clockwork.
I’m very happy to say we’re on schedule,” Yankovic said in a statement announcing the project. “And I am absolutely thrilled that Daniel Radcliffe will be portraying me in the film.
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