Patti Smith Co-Writing ‘Just Kids’ Film

Patti Smith’s excellent National Book Award-winning memoir, Just Kids, might become a feature film, as Smith herself has reportedly teamed up with Tony Award winner and Oscar-bait heavyweight John Logan (Gladiator, The Aviator, The Last Samurai) to pen a screenplay based on the book’s account of her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. No distribution deals are in place as of yet, so the project is very much in its beginning stages. Meanwhile, Smith has a number of other ambitious projects on her plate (in addition to covering Adele): an extension of her first memoir, a detective novel, and a new LP inspired by Saint Francis of Assisi, the home of Dylan Thomas, and Mikhail Bulgakov’s 1967 novel The Master and Margarita.
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