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Legacy Recordings Announces the Release of 'Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten,' The Album of Music From the Acclaimed New Film From Director Julien Temple



Legacy Recordings will release Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten -- an album of music from the soundtrack of director Julien Temple's new film, a celebration of the life and times of the punk rock pioneer Joe Strummer, before, during and after the Clash -- on Tuesday, April 3.


News of the soundtrack album comes hot on the heels of the film's highly successful premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, where it received unanimous praise from the foreign and domestic press including The Hollywood Reporter who summed it up as: "Bottom line: A rock documentary that's as good as it gets ... . You don't have to be a fan of the British punk-rock sensation the Clash to enjoy Julien Temple's 'Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten,' a visually exciting, high-octane, rock history of the band and its charismatic frontman and songwriter, Joe Strummer. Simply said: It's terrific."


According to Daily Variety, "Pic is the creative equal to Strummer's aggressive signature, ensuring 'Strummer' will be in demand among both longtime Clash fans and pop culture mavens for theatrical and beyond."


The film follows Strummer's legendary musical career -- from his early days with London pub-rockers the 101'ers, through the glory years of the Clash, to the Mescaleros, the band Strummer fronted until his untimely death in 2002. "The Future Is Unwritten" incorporates rare archival materials, including incendiary unreleased live footage of the Clash, as well as vintage and newly-filmed interviews Strummer's friends and collaborators including Mick Jones, Nick "Topper" Headon, Terry Chimes, Iain Gillies, Alasdair Gillies, Gaby Holford, Luce Mellor, Bono, Damien Hirst, Joe Ely, John Cusack, Johnny Depp, Matt Dillon, Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese, Sara Driver, Flea, Courtney Love Cobain, Steve Buscemi, and Zander Schloss.


The film's soundtrack chronicles all phases of the music made by Joe Strummer, both inside and outside The Clash, as well as a revealing assemblage of the sounds and musicians which inspired him including Elvis Presley, Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, the MC5 and more. Weaving together music and dialog from the film, including audio clips from Strummer's BBC radio program, the soundtrack album makes available many rare and previously unreleased tracks.


"The Future Is Unwritten" is directed by the groundbreaking Julien Temple. An early champion of punk rock who shot the first films of both the Clash and the Sex Pistols, Temple profoundly influenced the look, history and direction of narrative and documentary music films and videos with an unparalleled body of work which includes his Sex Pistols diptych: "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle" (1980) and "The Filth and the Fury" (2000), his musical adaptation of Colin MacInnnes' landmark 1959 novel "Absolute Beginners" in 1986, and his 2006 documentary of enduring rock tribalism, "Glastonbury." In addition to directing a string of innovative music videos for Duran Duran, Sade, Depeche Mode, Culture Club, Janet Jackson, Tom Petty, Whitney Houston, and many others, Temple has made non-musical films including the 1988 comedy "Earth Girls Are Easy," the 1996 crime drama "Bullet," and the 1998 biopic "Vigo."


"Strummer's honesty is what makes him a great film subject," said Julien Temple. "He believed that music could change people's lives."

Question is the docu. going to be in theatres anytime soon?

Oh yes, I hope the documentary will be released---------

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Exclusive: Strummer Documentary To Premiere At Sundance



Joe Strummer


November 07, 2006, 3:20 PM ET

Wes Orshoski, N.Y.
"The Future is Unwritten," Julien Temple's new film on the life and career of late Clash frontman Joe Strummer, will have its U.S. premiere in mid-January at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

Taking its name from one of Strummer's favorite phrases, the film includes interviews with such Strummer disciples as Bono, actors Johnny Depp and John Cusack, members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Clash, old friends and those who squatted with him in condemned buildings in London before the Clash took off.

Also featured is unseen footage of Strummer's early life, as well as unearthed clips of the Clash and the Mescaleros, the band he fronted in the years prior to his 2002 death.

Using a combination of old interviews collected from journalists, as well as tapes of Strummer's BBC radio show, "The Future is Unwritten" finds Strummer "very much narrating and DJing his life story," says Temple, renown for his Sex Pistols movie "The Filth and the Fury."

The film is slated to debut in theaters via Sony Pictures in the U.S. by early summer, followed by a DVD and soundtrack release. Temple tells Billboard.com the music in the film spans Strummer's record collection, and includes techno, Hawaiian and Latin American music, as well as songs by his own bands and tracks from Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, rockabilly hero Eddie Cochran and Jamaica's Ernest Ranglin.

In a nod to one of Strummer's favorite late-life pastimes, the movie finds friends and admirers remembering the singer around campfires all over the world. Says Temple, "We had to have a bonfire on Mulholland Drive in L.A., where you can't put out a cigarette without getting dragged off by the fire brigade, and it didn't look very good until the fire officer said, 'What's the project?' We said, 'It's Joe Strummer,' and he said, 'In that case, you can have the license.'"

"And that was the effect all around: We had a runner on the shoot in New York, who got stopped by a cop for not having a safety belt and talking on a mobile phone," Temple continues. "The cop was just about to give him a ticket, when he saw the production thing on the dashboard, looked at it, and said, 'No fine. No ticket. This is for Joe.'"

"He had that effect on people," he says. "They really have a great deal of love and respect for this guy. But this is not a hero-worship film. Hopefully it does show a real human being, because that's what Joe was, first and foremost. He certainly wasn't a saint of any kind. Hopefully, the film does give you a rounded portrait of the man and his life."

"The Future is Unwritten" comes on the heels of a special Clash exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which opened last month, and the Nov. 14 release of "The Singles," a Legacy box set collecting the band's 19 U.K. singles.