For the life of me I just can’t understand why American Idol is so popular. A few years ago we had another name for it… it was called “karaoke”. Holy crap people… it’s just a bunch of pretty faces singing other people’s songs to pre-recorded soundtracks!!! Whatever.
But this little story I came across did catch my attention. Apparently Disney is getting set to produce a film based on a true story about an American Idol in prison. The good folks over at cinemablend give us this:
the movie will be about the real life “American Idol” type contest held in an Arizona jail, as told in an L.A. Weekly article by Joshuah Bearman. The story will focus on Bret Kaiser, a detention officer with a heavy metal past. He created the “Inmate Idol Singing Con-Test” which put prison hostilities aside for a music contest. Kudos to him for working both “inmate” and “con” into his title. Apparently the finale for the contest even had Alice Cooper as a judge, so expect him to probably put in an appearance in the movie.
On the one hand, this holds a lot of potential to just be another one of those Disney Drivel “feel good about everything” movies. No doubt. However, I really like this story. Just reading the short synopsis I’m damn curious to start searching for more information on it find out all the details about how this thing actually worked. So yeah, I guess I’m a sucker for individual people trying to do what they can to make a difference. Most of us just sit on our asses and complain about things without doing shit.
