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Daniel Radcliffe will play “Weird Al” Yankovic in upcoming biopic

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Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe will star as "Weird Al" Yankovic in an upcoming biopic of the parody songwriter. Weird: The “Weird Al” Yankovic Story will be co-written and produced by Yankovic; Eric Appel will serve as co-writer, producer, and director.

Funny Or Die will produce the film for The Roku Channel. “When my last movie UHF came out in 1989," Yankokvic said in a statement obtained by Deadline, "I made a solemn vow to my fans that I would release a major motion picture every 33 years, like clockwork.

I’m very happy to say we’re on schedule. And I am absolutely thrilled that Daniel Radcliffe will be portraying me in the film.

I have no doubt whatsoever that this is the role future generations will remember him for.” A statement from Colin Davis, Roku's Head of Original Programming, suggests that the film won't follow a traditional biopic narrative. “There clearly aren’t enough biopic movies about famous musicians and we were excited to shine a light on the incredibly true, unexaggerated story of Weird Al,” David said.

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