Bill Hicks
Date of birth: 16-12-1961Date of death: 26-02-1994
School Of Rock director Richard Linklater is developing a biopic of Bill Hicks.
The Hollywood veteran is an avowed fan of the firebrand comedians and has said: ‘There’s not quite any others like him. They don’t speak in the same voice. You’d think people would take that torch and go with it, but it’s a rare combination of that kind of intelligence, mysticism, political, you know… his politics, his angle, it’s pretty unique.’
No further details of the project are known, including the titlte, but the website Collider, which broke the news, said the film would be produced by Focus Features,
Hicks was previously the subject of a 2009 documentary American: The Bill Hicks Story, based around archive footage and interviews with friends, family and colleagues.
And Russell Crowe has long been linked to a possible separate Hicks biopic, either as star or director, although that project has never materialised.
February will be the 25th anniversary of Hicks’s death from pancreatic cancer at the age of 32.
Published: 25 Oct 2018
Bill Hicks’s classic Revelations show will be…
20/10/2017
When Bill Hicks walked into the Cardiff bookshop I…
18/04/2017
Bill Hicks's posthumous 1997 album Arizona Bay is…
20/11/2015
Previously unheard Bill Hicks routines are to be released…
13/03/2015
Twenty years ago to the day, Bill Hicks died of pancreatic…
26/02/2014
Fans of Bill Hicks have launched a campaign to erect…
4/08/2012
Russell Crowe is to direct his first full-length film…
23/07/2012
Another batch of previously unheard Bill Hicks material…
5/12/2011
Rare early footage of Bill Hicks performing in the…
17/08/2010
A previously unheard interview with Bill Hicks, recorded…
29/03/2010
The Bill Hicks routine controversially dropped from…
29/01/2009
Russell Crowe is set to play Bill Hicks in a new biopic…
18/08/2008
We do not currently hold contact details for Bill Hicks's agent. If you are a comic or agent wanting your details to appear here, for a one-off fee of £59, email steve@chortle.co.uk.
We see you are using AdBlocker software. Chortle relies on advertisers to fund this website so it’s free for you, so we would ask that you disable it for this site. Our ads are non-intrusive and relevant. Help keep Chortle viable.