BILL COMPTON JIM MORRISON MOVIE
BILL COMPTON JIM MORRISON FREE

BILL COMPTON JIM MORRISON FREE

* Dealing with the sexually free ‘60s in the nervous climate of the ‘90s, including Morrison’s sexual experimentation (though he was not always able to “perform,” perhaps due to all the drink and drugs) and his tendency to shed all his clothes in the night and run naked through streets or across balconies and rooftops. * The downbeat grittiness of the subject matter-including Morrison’s drug- and alcohol-induced exploits, his physical deterioration shortly after attaining stardom and his still-mysterious death of a heart attack at age 27 in 1971.

BILL COMPTON JIM MORRISON MOVIE

Still, the Morrison movie remains a filmic mine field, with obstacles including: It doesn’t hurt that his recently released “Born on the Fourth of July,” about a disabled Vietnam vet’s homecoming, is being touted as one of the front-runners in this year’s Academy Award race. The Morrison project garnered a certain cachet when Stone came aboard. A searcher who wrote about sex and death, two things any guy who’d been in Vietnam could relate to.” “He was an outlaw rebel pushing at boundaries. “In his own way, he was very much on the front line. As it turns out, Stone-whose wartime experiences inspired the Academy Award-winning “Platoon” (1986)-sees Morrison as a soldier who traversed the frontiers of the mind, for the sake of art. It may seem odd that Stone, the industry’s best-known Vietnam veteran, is writing and directing a movie about a group that represented the ‘60s radical movement that embraced everyone from war protesters to draft dodgers. “It blew me away,” remembered Stone, who maintains that “on the broadest possible level, Jimmy Morrison’s story represents themes of seeking a new consciousness and new levels of freedom.” Stone is now readying the yet-untitled “Doors Project” for a March start date for Carolco Pictures. Ultimately, the project made its way to film maker Oliver Stone, who was a soldier in Vietnam when he first heard the Doors’ music. There were meetings with a slew of top producers, directors and actors. Throughout the battles and beyond, projects were announced and unannounced.

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