Cameron Crowe To Direct New Joni Mitchell Movie

Revered director, playwright and music journalist, Cameron Crowe, is said to be coming back into the limelight with a new Joni Mitchell movie that he's been developing for the past two years. 

Sources caution that the project isn’t a traditional biopic in the conventional sense of the word, nor is it a documentary. Instead, it’s akin to an autobiography, in the sense that Crowe has been writing about Mitchell since he was a young reporter for Rolling Stone, and she has grown to trust him over the years, so he’s been writing the script with her input, reports Above The Line. 

Additionally, it's said that the project is very much of Crowe’s singular voice, it just happens to be Mitchell’s story that he’s telling, so it’s basically her life from the inside looking out, according to those familiar with the take.

It's clear that the project is deeply personal for Crowe which is evident in the recently republished Rolling Stone interview from 2000, wherein Crowe wrote, “Every journalist has their dream list of interview subjects. Mine was Marvin Gaye, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell. I never got to Marvin Gaye, but Joni Mitchell more than made up for it. My last cover story for the magazine, and still my favorite.” It’s unclear when they began work on the movie, but Crowe interviewed Mitchell again for the Los Angeles Times in 2021.

There has been no casting news or release schedule as of yet. 

In 2015, Mitchell was rushed to the hospital due to a brain aneurysm, causing the 71-year-old to lose her ability to speak.

David Crosby, friend and ex-partner of Mitchell explained in answer to a fan's question, "She took a terrible hit, she had an aneurysm, and nobody found her for a while...

"She's going to have to struggle back from it, the way you struggle back from a traumatic brain injury. How much she's going to come back and when I don't know and I'm not going to guess."

Luckily, Mitchell has improved over the last seven years and has been slowly returning to normal life, allowing her to work with Crowe on this new autobiographical movie. 

She’s made various brief appearances over the past year and will play her first proper concert in 20 years this summer.