Shailene Woodley to Play Janis Joplin in New Biopic (If It Actually Happens)

many attempts have been made at a Joplin biopic over the years and all have fallen through for one reason or another stop us if you've heard this one before a new Janice Joplin biopic is in the works and this time it's shayen Woodley who's attached to play the legendary singer and musician the project was revealed oddly enough in a press release issued by the California Film commission announcing which movies and TV shows would receive its coveted tax credits as such the details are pretty scant Woodley is set to Star and produce and the production company backing the film is Temple Hill entertainment which has done the Twilight movies first man smile and more but there's a lot we don't know at the moment including arguably the most crucial thing whether the Joplin estate is involved in the film has sanctioned it or will let the movie use Joplin's music Rolling Stone has reached out to the estate and Temple Hill for further details even Woodley's statement on the biopic seemed more about California than the actual movie California meant so much to Janice Joplin from the Stoops of San Francisco to the wooden walls of sunset sound the state became the stage upon which she explored not just the world of music but the world of her vibrant Humanity she said trending famously the 1979 film The Rose began as a Joplin biopic called Pearl but it was reconfigured after the Joplin family declined to Grant the project the rights to the late musician story in the decades since the rose there have been numerous attempts at making a proper Joplin biopic but all have fallen through Woodley now joins a rather stacked list of actresses and musicians who've been slated at one time or another to play the Queen of rock and roll including Amy Adams Renee zelger zoie desel Britney Murphy pink Melissa Etheridge and Nina Aranda