We've seen Douglas Booth play the likes of Romeo, Mr. Bingley and the melodramatic Titus Abrasax, but a new role should see a very different side of the actor. He's in talks to play Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx in The Dirt.
The film is an adaptation of 2001 book The Dirt: Confessions Of The World’s Most Notorious Rock Band penned by Crüe members Sixx, Tommy Lee, Mick Mars and Vince Neil – plus actual writer Neil Strauss, which chronicles the band’s rise and all the drug-taking, alcohol-imbibing and sexual shenanigans that implies. It has been lurking in development limbo for years since Paramount's MTV Films snapped up the rights around the time it was published.
More recently, Netflix stepped in, and Jackass/Bad Grandpa director Jeff Tremaine is attached to make the movie, working from a script by Erik Olsen and Amanda Adelson. With the cast coming together, this one might actually shoot next year.
Booth last cropped up in Loving Vincent and has worked on Mary Shelley, due next July.