James Keach has led a really attention-grabbing life, and has orbited the lives of different very attention-grabbing individuals. He co-wrote and in addition starred in The Lengthy Riders (alongside along with his brother Stacy), a traditional Western movie which caught the attention of Johnny Money. Money and June Carter grew to become shut buddies with Keach, who would go on to develop and produce the Money biopic Stroll the Line. He wasn’t the one iconic musician Keach befriended; iconic artist Glen Campbell grew to become a superb buddy of James Keach, and in addition labored with him on a film. Glen Campbell: I am going to Be Me is a fantastic, Oscar-nominated documentary about Campbell’s “Goodbye Tour” and the musician’s life-ending Alzheimer’s illness. Now, Keach is giving Campbell the Stroll the Line remedy with an intimate biographical drama.
“We’re engaged on doing the Stroll the Line model of the Glen Campbell story,” Keach informed MovieWeb in an interview revolving round Alzheimer’s illness. It is the topic of his newest movie, Taking Care, which explores how the illness impacted actor Seth Rogen and spouse Lauren Miller Rogen, who began Hilarity for Charity to boost consciousness and funds for the trigger. “I feel that in Glen’s case, it is probably the most extraordinary issues that the man was capable of sing.” Keach added:
And Tony Bennett is one other instance of that, to truly sing when he could not keep in mind who his spouse was. It is an interesting illness, and it is tragic, and hopefully none of us get it, however there’s an inevitability that lots of people are going to.
Keach defined his upcoming Campbell biopic to MovieWeb: “I feel we will forged him very younger, and he’ll see himself via the eyes of being younger, like all of us do. It is like I have a look at myself on the display right here. I do not see [myself as] the image proper right here. I see it up there [points to a photograph on his shelf], me doing The Lengthy Riders, and I am 29 years previous, and I am driving down the road, kicking ass, you recognize, I see myself and I really feel that I am nonetheless that man. However then I look within the mirror and I’m going, ‘Oh, right here I’m.'”
Casting Younger Glen Campbell
The fundamental story of the movie appears to comply with Campbell throughout the identical “Goodbye Tour” of Keach’s documentary, however it makes use of flashbacks all through, with Campbell’s life form of flashing earlier than his eyes as his thoughts drifts. “I feel it is someone who’s going to have to grasp music, you recognize,” added Keach about casting a younger Campbell. “It is a fairly vital factor. And Glen was only a phenomenal musician, and he was humorous. The film continues to be in regards to the final tour, however he sees his entire life. It is a completely different strategy to it, however it’s like [Alzheimer’s].” Keach elaborated:
“One of many issues about Alzheimer’s is you can go wherever. Your thoughts can go wherever. That is the reality of any our minds, interval. I imply, in the event you’re meditating otherwise you do something like that, you recognize the monkey thoughts, you would be again while you’re 5 years previous, and you then go to while you’re 50, and you then return to while you’re 25. However that is Alzheimer’s, within the sense that it is a illness of the thoughts.”
Keach mentioned that the actor will in all probability be a recent face we’ve not seen earlier than, so we should wait and see who will play Glen Campbell, or, because the musician would say, who “Will Be Me.” Within the meantime, Taking Care is obtainable to look at on digital platforms like Apple TV, Amazon, and extra. Discover it right here. You’ll find extra details about Hilarity for Charity right here, and you’ll discover ways to take motion with Taking Care right here.