Before Canadian JD Fortune, there was Michael Hutchence, who was the lead singer of INXS. And now the band’s original frontman will see a movie done about his life and death, the Hollywood Reporter reports.

The film has been in talks about getting made for years, and is now tied to two Britain filmmakers, one of whom was a close friend of the late rocker.

Directing honours of the project were given to Nick Egan, after producer Clark Westerman saw last season’s “Rock Star,” which saw INXS looking for a new frontman. He was worried that Hutchence’s memory would be destroyed because of this.

“I said, ‘Somebody else is going to do it, and they are not going to do it as well as you would because you knew him so well,’” Westerman says.

Hutchence died in a slew of controversy after allegedly hanging himself in a hotel room in 1997. Westerman says the rocker’s death will not be the focus of the movie.

The project is currently titled “Slide Away” and has the permissions of Hutchence’s trust and his brother, but reportedly not his father.






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