Angryfilms and Bellport Team Up for Jimi Hendrix Drama

Fictional movie will focus on legendary rocker’s ‘lost weekend’

Don Murphy’s Angryfilms is teaming with Bellport Pictures’ Carol Lewis to make "Slide," a fictional indie drama featuring Jimi Hendrix being written by R.H. Greene, who also will direct.

"Slide" tells the quirky story involving a legendary Hendrix "lost weekend" in the late 1960s. The story revolves around two gangsters, desperately trying to get away from a mob boss they double-crossed, who inadvertently kidnap Hendrix, then at the height of his career and drug addiction. Along the way, Hendrix ends up teaching one of the gangsters about honesty, and Hendrix learns to clean up his act.

Read more at the Hollywood Reporter.

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