Al Yankovic

The new film — starring Daniel Radcliffe and Evan Rachel Wood — puts a clever overwrought biopic spin on the parody king's life story. By Jon Blistein ...

based on a script Appel and Yankovic co-wrote. But of course, no music biopic would be complete without a redemption arc — and you better believe Weird has got one of those, too. [Weird: The Al Yankovic Story](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/watch-daniel-radcliffe-weird-al-teaser-1346987/).

Daniel Radcliffe is getting weird in Monday's new official trailer for the upcoming "Weird Al" Yankovic biopic. In addition to Radcliffe as "Weird Al," the ...

and will premiere in September at the Toronto International Film Festival. From there, the trailer takes off -- chronicling the bizarre rise of Weird Al, including a hook-up scene with Madonna (played by Evan Rachel Wood). Radcliffe -- with his curly brown mop of hair, wire-rim glasses and bushy mustache -- is almost unrecognizable.

The new, official trailer for Weird: The Al Yankovic Story on the Roku Channel is a hilarious spoof of all music biopics & features Madonna.

[Weird: The Al Yankovic Story](https://www.escapistmagazine.com/weird-the-al-yankovic-story-trailer-daniel-radcliffe/) is a biographical movie about internationally beloved and Grammy-winning musician Al Yankovic, starring Daniel Radcliffe. The Weird: The Al Yankovic Story official trailer only gets goofier from there, in a great way. In reality, it’s a hilarious, made-up spoof on autobiographical movies about musicians, and Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is looking even funnier than before with its new, [official trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCNKdJ2CIJk).

The Roku Channel has been eager to expand its original programming, and the upcoming Al Yankovic biopic will likely be a hit for the free streaming service.

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From Freddie Mercury to James Brown to Madonna herself, many of the artists that “Weird” Al Yankovic has parodied have either received the biopic treatment, ...

Demento (who, like in the movie, really did give Yankovic his first airplay); and Evan Rachel Wood as Madonna, who, unlike in the movie really didn’t seduce Al and drag him to the dark side. That trailer was more of an explicit parody of rise-and-fall dramatic music biopics, while the new promo for the new full-length movie shows a slick, slyer take. So it’s only fitting that the musical madman himself is finally getting his own origin story in Weird, a movie about Al’s rise to mainstream ubiquity—one that turns out to be a parody of biopics themselves.

The official trailer for WEIRD: the Weird Al Yankovic Story has been released! The film is set to stream exclusively on Roku beginning this fall.

The trailer also features [Evan Rachel Wood](/people/Evan-Rachel-Wood/) as Madonna, [Rainn Wilson](/people/Rainn-Wilson/) as Dr. Al Yankovic produces, along with Mike Farah, [Joe Farrell](/people/Joe-Farrell/) and Whitney Hodack for Funny Or Die, and Tim Headington, Lia Buman and Max Silva for Tango. [Weird Al Yankovic](/people/Weird-Al-Yankovic/) Story has been released!

In the film, Radcliffe plays the American singer famous for parody versions of popular songs, such as the 1996 hit “Amish Paradise”, a humorous spoof of the ...

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A trailer for the biopic 'Weird: The Al Yankovic Story' shows just how ripped Daniel Radcliffe got for the role, and people on Twitter are already ...

(If that movie was a soft reboot of Romancing the Stone, Radcliffe was firmly in the Danny DeVito role.) In that regard, the role of Weird Al is perfectly in keeping with his tastes, and he has certainly taken to the curly wig and Hawaiian shirt with gusto. When the trailer first hit Twitter, people were slightly confused, and it prompted many to ask: was Weird Al ever really that cut? Since appearing in the Harry Potter films, Radcliffe has carved out a niche for himself where he tends to play, well, weirdos, most recently opposite Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum in The Lost City.

It's the titular role! The actor who first gained fame for playing Harry Potter will now portray the musician behind such beloved parody pop songs as "My ...

As seen in [the latest trailer](https://ew.com/movies/madonna-seduces-a-ripped-weird-al-in-new-trailer-for-daniel-radcliffes-parody-biopic/) for Weird, their performances are an exaggerated parody of disapproving parents. ["Weird Al" Yankovic](https://ew.com/tag/weird-al-yankovic/) personally selected [Daniel Radcliffe](https://ew.com/tag/daniel-radcliffe/) to play him in the film. [Madonna](https://ew.com/tag/madonna/) is the only one who suggested the concept herself. Based on [the first-look photo](https://ew.com/movies/quinta-brunson-oprah-weird-the-al-yankovic-story-photo/), it looks like Brunson's Winfrey will do an MTV Cribs-style interview with Yankovic, showing off his closet full of Hawaiian shirts. Demento, the radio host specializing in comedy and novelty songs who first introduced Yankovic to a wide audience, [Toby Huss](https://ew.com/tag/toby-huss/) ( [Dickinson](https://ew.com/creative-work/dickinson/)) and [Julianne Nicholson](https://ew.com/tag/julianne-nicholson/) ( [Mare of Easttown](https://ew.com/creative-work/mare-of-easttown/#:~:text=Kate%20Winslet%20stars%20as%20a,she%20investigates%20a%20local%20murder.)) will play Nick and Mary Yankovic, the parents of the comedy music superstar. What good is a music biopic without a shady older mentor to identify the star's talent at an early stage? ...but Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is also playful in its approach to real life. [Abbott Elementary](https://ew.com/creative-work/abbott-elementary/) star [Quinta Brunson](https://ew.com/person/quinta-brunson/)'s next trick will be portraying [Oprah Winfrey](https://ew.com/person/oprah-winfrey/) in Weird. [a torrid love affair](https://ew.com/movies/madonna-seduces-a-ripped-weird-al-in-new-trailer-for-daniel-radcliffes-parody-biopic/) between him and Madonna ( [Evan Rachel Wood](https://ew.com/tag/evan-rachel-wood/)). It's the titular role! The actor recently told [Jimmy Fallon](https://ew.com/tag/jimmy-fallon/) that it was [because he sang](https://ew.com/tv/how-daniel-radcliffe-got-cast-as-weird-al-yankovic-rihanna-elements-song/) Tom Lehrer's parody song ["The Elements"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycKkGEShVsg) on [The Graham Norton Show](https://ew.com/creative-work/the-graham-norton-show/) in 2010.

New York Comic Con 2022 has announced the first round of its panel programming for 2022, including The Walking Dead, Outlander and WEIRD: The Al Yankovic ...

6 discussion with select cast members for CBS’ supernatural comedy breakout Ghosts; a discussion with the directors and producers of the latest installment in the V/H/S franchise, V/H/S/99: V/H/S Goes To Hell, on Oct. [Weird: The Al Yankovic Story](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/weird-the-al-yankovic-story/) will get the full [NYCC](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/nycc/) treatment on Oct. The full programming schedule for New York Comic Con, running Oct. 7; as well as two panels from manga publisher and anime distributor VIZ Media — a full first episode screening for BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War (Oct. Among the other events teased in this first round of NYCC 2022 programming announcements include a panel for the New Orleans-set contemporary gothic romance Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches, featuring the show’s EPs and cast that’s set for Oct. Meanwhile, Scooby-Doo fans can unmask the latest chapter in the long-running animated franchise during its premiere screening on Oct. 9 to take fans under the hood of DC’s first-ever preschool animated series, giving attendees a special premiere of two never-before-seen episodes. Producers and members of the Batwheels voice cast will be on hand Oct. The actor, along with fellow Outlander stars Duncan LaCroix and David Berry and series author Diana Gabaldon, will appear for the “Sunday Morning Tea With Two Highlanders & A Lord” panel, which is set for Oct. It’s all part of the convention’s full-foce return after going virtual for 2020 and producing a limited in-person capacity event in 2021 due to the pandemic. 7 screening of Showtime’s highly-anticipated small screen adaptation of vampire drama Let the Right One In, will be followed by a cast Q&A with Demián Bichir, Eleanor Kane, Anika Noni Rose, Nick Stahl, Grace Gummer, Kevin Carroll, Ian Foreman and Jacob Buster. The Empire stage panel will go behind-the-scenes of the outrageous biopic, which just released its first full trailer and is out on Nov.