Daniel Radcliffe will play “Weird Al” Yankovic in a film about the unexaggerated true story about the greatest musician and sex symbol of our time.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story also stars Evan Rachel Wood (Westworld, Across the Universe) as Madonna, Rainn Wilson (The Office, The Meg) as Dr. Demento, Toby Huss (Cop Shop, Halloween) as Nick Yankovic and Julianne Nicholson (I, Tonya, Mare of Easttown) as Mary Yankovic.
Radcliffe most recently starred in Paramount’s The Lost City, alongside Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum. His TBS series, Miracle Workers, with Steve Buscemi, Geraldine Viswanathan and Karan Soni, was recently picked up for a fourth season. Radcliffe also executive produces the show.
Radcliffe’s film and television credits include eight films in the Harry Potter series, Miracle Workers: Dark Ages, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend, Escape from Pretoria, Guns Akimbo, The Woman in Black, A Young Doctor’s Notebook, Jungle, Now You See Me 2, Swiss Army Man, Imperium, Kill Your Darlings, Victor Frankenstein, Horns, What If, Extras and The Simpsons. Radcliffe has starred in theatre production’s including Endgame onLondon’s West End, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying on Broadway, The Lifespan of a Fact on Broadway, The Cripple of Inishmaan on Broadway and London’s West End, Rough for Theatre II, Equus, Privacy, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is the outrageous biopic of the unique artist who gained fame and fortune by parodying hit songs. A true-life story about the man who turned twisting popular lyrics into a hugely successful career had to be equally twisted, befitting the man, the myth, the legend known to the world as “Weird Al” Yankovic. The film follows Weird Al’s meteoric rise from misfit kid to aspiring accordion player to chart-topping megastar (in an extremely specific genre of music), revealing his decadent lifestyle, his torrid affair with the Material Girl herself, and his shocking encounter with an infamous international drug lord.
The comedy film was directed by Eric Appel (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Silicon Valley, Die Hart), marking his feature film directorial debut, and written by Al Yankovic & Appel. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story was produced by Mike Farah, Joe Farrell, Whitney Hodack, Tim Headington, Lia Buman, Max Silva, Al Yankovic and Eric Appel, with Henry Muñoz III, Neil Shah and Zachary Halley serving as executive producers. Behind-the-scenes, Appel collaborated with director of photography Ross Riege, editor Jamie Kennedy, costume director Wendy Benbrook, and production designer Dan Butts. The original music was composed by Leo Birenberg and Zach Robinson. Al Yankovic served as supervising music producer and Suzanne Coffman was the music supervisor.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is a Roku original film, made by A Funny Or Die and Tango Production, streaming on Paramount+ from Thursday, 2 March.
Media Release – Paramount+
