It’s a shame, because it could have been such a great movie. “They never said a bad word about Rob in the whole time I was with them, for example.
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“When I joined, they were young and spry, but the movie was trying to paint a different picture” Owens states. … You’re not painting an accurate portrait here.’ The movie people said, ‘You have no creative input,’ so the band pulled away and said, ‘You cannot use our name without telling an accurate story.'”Īmong those inaccuracies, Owens says, was an attempt to make the members of Priest appear older than they really were and to suggest more interpersonal issues between them and the departed Halford than really existed. The band said, ‘Look, we don’t like the angle of some of these things.
“We were supposed to have music in the movie and everything,” he recalls.
Owens' understanding is that communications between the band and the film company were positive at first. “The person that the movie was supposed to be about wasn’t involved in it at all,” he muses. But they’re not Judas Priest for nothing – they know what they’re doing.” That was almost the last interaction Owens had with Hollywood. “First of all, you think you’re going to get paid from it anyway,” he laughs, “and at that point in my career, I’d have taken $5,000. What did the rising star do with the information? He passed it on to Priest manager Jane Andrews, because he was part of a team. On the Monday I was on the golf course in my hometown, and my parents were calling me, saying, ‘There’s movie companies calling, interested in that story.’ Then they called again, saying, ‘Hey, George Clooney and Warner Bros. “It all started with an article in The New York Times, front page of the entertainment section,” Owens tells UCR. By the time Metal God – the true story of how Ripper Owens replaced his hero, Rob Halford – hit theaters, it was titled Rock Star and turned into a based-on rom-com featuring Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston, with no reference to Owens himself.
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