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Based on the bestselling autobiography from Mötley Crüe , the film is an unflinching tale of success and excess as four misfits rise from the streets of Hollywood to the heights of international fame. THE DIRT will launch globally on Netflix March 22. THE DIRT soundtrack will also be available on March 22 featuring 14 Mötley Crüe classic hits and 4 brand new songs. Discuss this with fellow SJF fans on Facebook . On Twitter, follow us at @SandwichJohnFilms Please Leave A Comment-

Colson Baker , known by his stage name Machine Gun Kelly , has been tapped to play Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee in Netflix’s adaptation of the band’s biography “The Dirt.” Jeff Tremaine, who helmed the “Jackass” movies, is directing the film from a script by Rich Wilkes and Tom Kapinos. Julie Yorn, Erik Olsen, and Allen Kovac are producing, while Chris Nilsson, Steve Kline, and Rick Yorn are exec producing. Members of Motley Crue are co-producing. Based on the 2001 autobiography “The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band,” the movie follows the group’s rise during the ’80s “hair band” rock scene on the Sunset Strip and pulls no punches as it dives into the band’s highs and lows along the way. Motley Crue played its final concert on New Year’s Eve in 2015 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Celebrate thirty years of the world’s most notorious rock band with the deluxe collectors’ edition of The Dirt —the outrageous, legendary, no-holds-barred autobiography

The long-gestating project, which at one point called Paramount and Focus Features home sweet home, is in negotiations to land at Netflix, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Jeff Tremaine , the helmer of the Jackass movies , is attached to direct the project, which has a script by Rich Wilkes and Tom Kapinos. The project is based on The New York Times bestselling autobiography The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band , which was written by Mötley Crüe members Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx, as well as author Neil Strauss. The book was a no-holds-barred account of the iconic 1980s band's rise to top of the hair metal and rock scene, all while experiencing a guitar case's worth of drug overdoses, sex with slinky babes, run-ins with the police and in-fighting. The project was last at Focus, which picked it up in January 2015. Before that it was at Paramount where directors such as David Fincher and Larry Charles were sweet on i