Meryl Streep is to play Joni Mitchell in the new Cameron Crowe directed biopic.
This was reported by Rolling Stone magazine, who said that record executive Clive Davis confirmed the casting at his pre Grammy awards party last Saturday (January 31) at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.
News of this comes after rumours had surfaced last year that Anya Taylor-Joy has been cast as a younger version of Mitchell. Casting of the younger version of the singer was not confirmed at the time of writing.
Initially, Crowe had hoped that would be released at the end of last year, but that did not materialise.
“It’s Joni’s life, not through anybody else’s prism. It’s through her prism. It’s the characters who impacted her life that you know and a lot that you don’t know. And the music is so cinematic", Crowe said in a previous interview with Classic Rock.
In May 2024. Meryl Streep had reportedly entered talks to star in a third Mamma Mia film. More on this story here.
In January last year, it emerged that Streep was forced to cut a huge hole in the fence of her LA home to escape the horrific LA wildfires, according to her nephew. More on this report here.
