A new film about the life of the late Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver vocalist Scott Weiland is in production, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Dark Pictures is preparing a feature film based on Weiland's biography, Not Dead & Not for Sale . According to The Hollywood Reporter , Dark Pictures co-founder Jennifer Erwin is a big fan of Stone Temple Pilots and will oversee the adaptation. Erwin wrote the screenplay for Blink and is currently working on a TV series titled Bad Land.
“It’s an honor to be able to tell Scott’s story and to present an unknown side of him – the loving and caring man he was, the athlete and the melancholic soul he had,” Erwin said in a statement to the press.
Information about the film should be released soon.
Scott Weiland
The vocalist joined Stone Temple Pilots in the 1990s, but his struggle with addiction caused him to step away from fame. Weiland eventually left the group and later joined Velvet Revolver in 2002. Along with Slash, Duff McKagan , and Matt Sorum , he made history with two studio albums.
In 2008 he returned to Stone Temple Pilots to tour with the group, a tour that lasted until 2013. Weiland left the band again, but this time he focused on his solo career until December 2015, when he passed away during a tour. He was 48 years old.
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