Happy Mondays on the fate of the Shaun Ryder biopic and getting “back at it” in 2025

nme.com:

Happy Mondays have spoken to NME about the scrapped Shaun Ryder biopic and plans to get “back at it” with music in 2025. Watch our interview below.Before their “hysterical” appearance with Rita Ora during the ceremony went viral, Ryder and Bez from the indie icons caught up with NME on the red carpet of the MTV EMAs on Sunday (November 10) – held at the Co-Op Live arena in the band’s native Manchester.Asked about how 2024 had been for the Mondays, Ryder replied: “Quiet, because we kind of knocked it on the head in 2024.

We went out doing Black Grape and Mantra Of The Cosmos, so in 2025 we’ll be back at it.”Bez added: “We’re getting the band back together again…again!”A post shared by NME (@nmemagazine)It was recently announced that the band would be joining James on the Colchester date of their huge summer 2025 UK tour, and now fans are expecting news a full tour to come and perhaps the follow-up to 2007’s ‘Uncle Dysfunktional’.

However, it seems that the long-mooted Shaun Ryder biopic is off the table – for now at least.In 2013, ITV announced it was planning to serialise the Happy Mondays frontman’s autobiography Twisting My Melon.

Eventually, Jack O’Connell (Skins) was announced as the lead actor in 2019. The film is written by Matt Greenhalgh, who also wrote the script for the Ian Curtis biopic Control, John Lennon‘s origin story Nowhere Boy, and Amy Winehouse‘s Back to Black.Back in January, it was revealed that the film had been held up by a creative dispute.