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Neon Boards ‘I Want My MTV’ From ‘Patti Cake$’ Filmmaker Geremy Jasper

Deadline·Anthony D'Alessandro·28 days ago
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EXCLUSIVE: Neon has acquired the feature adaptation of Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum’s oral history I Want My MTV : The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution which Patti Cake$ filmmaker Geremy Jasper is directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jim Hecht ( Winning Time ). Neon picked up the package in a competitive situation. I Want My MTV follows MTV’s inception and early years through the lens of the visionaries who knew that the future of entertainment was merging music and television. While the film is set within the framing of 1980-1985, the project is billed as a timely story of invention and survival in an ever-changing media landscape, especially as MTV recently shut down its last remaining music-only channels.  “I was part of the first generation raised on MTV – it was my radio and film school in one. Jim and I both worked there between the 90s to early 2000s, and it is even where I met my wife, Georgie.…

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