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EXCLUSIVE: Neon has acquired nan characteristic adjustment of Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum’s oral history I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of nan Music Video Revolution which Patti Cake$ filmmaker Geremy Jasper is directing from a screenplay he co-wrote pinch Jim Hecht (Winning Time). Neon picked up nan package successful a competitory situation.
I Want My MTV follows MTV’s inception and early years done nan lens of nan visionaries who knew that nan early of intermezo was merging euphony and television. While nan movie is group wrong nan framing of 1980-1985, nan task is billed arsenic a timely communicative of invention and endurance successful an ever-changing media landscape, particularly arsenic MTV precocious unopen down its past remaining music-only channels.
“I was portion of nan first procreation raised connected MTV – it was my power and movie schoolhouse successful one. Jim and I some worked location betwixt nan 90s to early 2000s, and it is moreover wherever I met my wife, Georgie. So, I was instantly hooked connected Rob and Craig’s book, which is an insane, hilarious, inspiring thrust done ‘80s ambition, excess, and stone ’n’ rotation rebellion. I americium grateful they trusted america to accommodate it. And there’s nary amended partner than Neon arsenic they’ve sewage nan aforesaid fearless, visionary power that made MTV a popular civilization force,” said Jasper.
As his 3rd task pinch Jasper, Noah Stahl will nutrient done Cinetic Media alongside Riva Marker of Linden Productions and Barnstorm’s Glen Powell and Dan Cohen. Eva Maria Daniels is besides onboard arsenic an EP. Casting is underway.
Jasper’s debut characteristic film, Patti Cake$, was a breakout deed astatine nan 2017 Sundance Film Festival, which was acquired by Searchlight. The movie went connected to play that year’s Cannes Film Festival Directors’ Fortnight. Jasper wrote each nan movie’s original songs, which were released arsenic a soundtrack medium via Republic Records. The movie was nominated for a DGA Award and an Independent Spirit Award. Jasper past went connected to re-team pinch Searchlight for post-apocalyptic philharmonic play O’dessa, starring Sadie Sink, which was released connected Hulu successful 2025. As a co-founder of nan accumulation institution LEGS, Jasper co-directed VMA-nominated videos for Florence + The Machine’s Dog Days Are Over and Selena Gomez’s Love You Like a Love Song. His guidance for nan Target Kaleidoscopic Fashion Spectacular, a 20-minute unrecorded arena which transformed New York’s Standard Hotel into a elephantine ray committee pinch complete 1 100 dancers, won a TED Prize, nan prestigious Gold Outdoor Lion astatine nan 2011 Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, and an induction into MoMA’s imperishable collection. The head is repped by WME, Range Media Partners and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
Hecht is simply a writer and producer, wide known for Winning Time: The Rise of nan Lakers Dynasty (2022) and the Ice Age movies. He astir precocious worked connected AppleTV+’s constricted bid The Big Cigar (2024), which follows The Black Panther Party’s laminitis Huey P. Newton’s life – pursuing nan nationalist fig who escaped to Cuba to debar prosecution for execution pinch nan thief of Bert Schneider, nan Hollywood shaper down Easy Rider, arsenic good arsenic a fewer different personage radicals. Hecht is repped astatine UTA, Range Media Partners and Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein Lezcano Bobb & Dang.
Marks is nan executive editor of HITS magazine. He has served arsenic a apical editor astatine nan Los Angeles Times, Billboard, Blender and Spin magazines, and has contributed to The New York Times, New York, GQ and various different publications. Tannenbaum has been a contributing editor astatine GQ, Rolling Stone, Details, and Playboy. He was nan euphony editor of Blender and has written for nan New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, New York, nan Village Voice, and different places. He’s presently penning a book pinch John Leguizamo astir Latino history and culture. Marks & Tannenbaum are repped by UTA connected behalf of PJ Mark astatine Janklow & Nesbit Associates.
Neon has a dense work lineup heading into Cannes pinch specified films successful title arsenic James Gray’s Paper Tiger, Arthur Harari’s The Unknown, Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden, Hirokazu Koreeda’s Sheep successful nan Box, and Na Hong-Jin’s Hope. In Directors’ Fortnight: Clarissa, a modern reimagining of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, and David Greaves’ Once Upon a Time successful Harlem. Rounding retired nan slate, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell which is screening retired of title and opens connected July 24. Neon is besides opening Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters on May 22 which made its world premiere astatine Cannes.
