Kinks Biopic, You’ve Really Got Me, Via Julien Temple

It seems like biopics focused on musicians are popping up every other day. We’re already awaiting the John Lennon biopic, Nowhere Boy. We’ve also got the Serge Gainsbourg picture, Vie Heroique coming up. Last but not least, we’re all wondering if that Jeff Buckley feature will ever turn into a reality.

The latest one we’ve come across is one on legendary British band, The Kinks. Director, Julien Temple, is currently working on making this become an actuality for theaters. It sounds like it’s highly possible too, since he’s already done films in the past such as The Great Rock ‘n’ Rock Swindle, The Filth and The Fury, and his latest, Oil City Confidential.

According to Screendaily, the Kinks biopic will be titled You’ve Really Got Me and it will focus on the always-turbulent relationship between brothers, Ray and Dave Davies. Like all biopics, the storyline will map out the beginning, middle, and end showing how the brothers formed the group in 1964 to the fame status for their signature sound.

Temple tells Screendaily:

“At the heart of it is the extraordinary love-hate relationship between these two brothers: love/hate, sibling rivalry is at the core. I think it’s a very rich social, cultural nexus around The Kinks. Their story is the untold story of all those big bands of the 1960s.”

Who will play the Davies brothers? No one knows as of now. There isn’t a cast yet, let alone a finished and official screenplay either. What’s cool about that fact is that Temple is working with the one and only Ray Davies himself before they put it all down on paper and send it to the printers.

What wouldn’t be cool? If anyone suggests Robert Pattinson to play one of the brothers. Blasphemy!