If you were looking forward to that Joni Mitchell/Carole King/Carly Simon biopic Girls Like Us, then today, Nov. 25, you are out of luck. In an interview with The Sunday Times, via NME, Joni Mitchell revealed that she has pulled the plug on the project, citing the casting of Taylor Swift as one of the primary reasons.
"I squelched that!" Mitchell admitted. "I said to the producer, 'All you've got is a girl with high cheekbones.' It's just a lot of gossip, you don't have the great scenes."
"There's a lot of nonsense about me in books," Mitchell went on to say, "assumptions, assumptions, assumptions."
The now-halted film was based on the book Girls Like Us by Sheila Weller, which followed the rise of Mitchell and her singer-songwriter contemporaries Carly Simon and Carole King during the 1970s. Swift was cast as Mitchell back in 2012, with Mad Men's Jessica Pare cast as Simon and The Newsroom's Alison Pill cast as King.
Though Girls Like Us does not look like it is going to be happening, there are plenty more musical biopics on the way. According to Consequence of Sound, movies based on Hank Williams, N.W.A, Guns N' Roses, Brian Wilson and Janis Joplin are in the works, as well as on Kurt Cobain and Ol' Dirty Bastard.
On Nov. 17, Mitchell released a career-spanning compilation titled Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, a Ballet, Waiting to Be Danced, which collects 53 of her songs and arranges them as a quartet, or "a four-act ballet." Mitchell's most recent album Shine was released in 2007 and is supposedly her last.
Check out Taylor Swift's "Teardrops on My Guitar" and Joni Mitchell's "All I Want" below and determine for yourself if Swift would have done well in the role:
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