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Daniel Radcliffe Will Play Weird Al Yankovic In A Biopic & It'll Be Anything But Normal

Fans joked that it'll be a step up from Harry Potter.

Global Staff Writer

"Weird Al" Yankovic is getting his own biopic on Roku, and he'll be played by none other than Daniel Radcliffe, aka. Harry Potter himself.

Roku says the film will be a "tell-all" following the iconic musician's life — and his one-of-a-kind song parodies.

Eric Appel of Funny or Die will direct the movie and write it alongside Yankovic, who is a five-time Grammy winner as well as the biggest-selling comedy recording artist of all time.

"When Weird Al first sat me down against my will and told me his life story, I didn’t believe any of it, but I knew that we had to make a movie about it," Appel said in a news release.

Radcliffe has taken some very different roles since Harry Potter in recent years, but this time he'll be stepping into the role of a real famous person.

Yankovic is one of music's best-selling musicians of all time and one of the only artists to get a top-40 hit in each of the last four decades, along with Michael Jackson and Madonna.

Yankovic joked that taking this role will define Radcliffe's career — more so than playing a certain boy wizard.

"I have no doubt whatsoever that this is the role future generations will remember him for," he said, as reported by Rolling Stone.

Fans on Twitter also weighed in, congratulating the actor on the role, and joking that the pressure is on for him to perform.

"This isn’t gonna be your usual Harry Potter walk in the park type bulls---. This is a real f------ role. Ain’t gonna be no Hagrid coming to ur rescue on this one bro," said one user, @rajat_suresh.

Production for WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story will kick off in Los Angeles in early February.

Radcliffe's other project will soon be released which is a romantic comedy calledThe Lost City, alongside Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum.

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    • Cata Balzano (she/her) was a Staff Writer for the Narcity Global Desk. With a Communications degree from Florida International University, she has worked with the Miami Herald, Billboard, Variety, and Telemundo within other media names, covering pop culture, fashion, entertainment and travel. Originally from South Florida, Cata grew up in a Colombian-Italian household, where she grasped a sense of a multicultural lifestyle from an early age. Cata speaks four languages, proudly owns three passports, and she has lived in Bogotá, New York City, Miami, London and the French Riviera before relocating to Rome in 2022. When she's not away exploring a new city, she is spending time around Italy with her French bulldog, Bentley.

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