![]() At an early downtown date, they heard snickers from their glam counterparts “until we plugged in and played, and then everyone’s mouths hung open,” Simmons said. “All the glitter-rock bands had wrists as thin as their girlfriends did, and here we looked like linebackers who had raided their girlfriends’ closets,” Stanley said. “I played him a song that ended up on our first album, and he played three for me, one about soup.” Combining Simmons’ passion for comics with the ’70s Gotham glitter-rock craze, they hit the makeup mirror with a specific goal: “Become the Beatles on steroids.” “Gene felt he, Lennon and McCartney were the only ones who wrote music,” Stanley once said. And when I played music, there were always girls around.”Īlthough their musical motives matched, Simmons and Stanley didn’t instantly mesh when they met. “I was this short, fat kid, and music became my salvation, a place to hide and dream. ![]() “I was deaf in one ear and had a slight deformity that made me look different,” Stanley said. Stanley, the lead singer with the jet-engine vocals, wasn’t always sex-symbol material. ‘Terror In Tinseltown’: Mötley Crüe Manager & Exec Producer Allen Kovac On ‘The Dirt’s 18-Year Journey To Screen “It occurred to me this was better than religion. “I remember walking out onto the street, seeing this Spanish girl jumping rope across the street, and staring at her long black hair slapping against this great butt,” he once said. Picture the fire-breathing, blood-dripping demonic and growly voiced bass player Simmons at age 12, when he was a Hasidic Orthodox Jew from Israel who found a new faith one fateful day while exiting the yeshiva. A release date for the movie has not yet been revealed.'The Lincoln Lawyer': LisaGay Hamilton Joins Netflix Drama Series As Recurring The rock band's signature concert anthems are expected to be utilized in the flick set to cover Stanley and Simmons' early friendship and KISS' enlistment of musicians Ace Frehley and Peter Criss, among other points from throughout the group's storied history. Stanley confirmed the initial announcement of the film in April by simply resharing an article about the movie on Twitter, adding the comment, " True!" The movie's script comes from writer Ole Sanders, who is said to have worked closely with both Stanley and the performer's fellow KISS co-leader, Gene Simmons. However, Netflix reportedly took part in a recent bidding war to release the film. Casting hasn't begun yet, but that will be interesting too."Īs the KISS biopic is still early in the stages, there are few other details so far. He did Maleficent 2 (Joachim Ronning), and he's not some hack - he knows how to make movies. … You get once chance to do it, and I would rather not do it than do it half assed or poorly. "And we really waited until we felt comfortable. "The script was really good," Stanley shared. And he seemed confident that the team they'd assembled so far is primed to do a bang-up job. On top of that, the KISS member is keeping an eye on other aspects of the production, as well. ![]() I think I'll learn a lot about their perception of me by who they cast." It'll be interesting to see how … the casting people or the director … view who I am and who they see doing that. ![]() But as the casting process goes on, I'll certainly be there and watching. And I'm the first to say I'm not up on a lot of them. Well, those guys are in their 50s or 60s, so you're talking about another generation of actors. The rocker continued, "When people get asked these kinds of questions, they'll say, 'Oh, Brad Pitt,' or this one or that one. Honestly, I don't know a whole lot of actors in their early 20s." "For casting to be accurate in terms of age," Stanley explained, "we are looking at actors in their early 20s. Watch the video down toward the bottom of this post.
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