CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Variety reports:

After years of protracted legal turmoil in the Ramones estate, the future of Netflix‘s film adaptation of Mickey Leigh’s memoir “I Slept With Joey Ramone” with Pete Davidson attached to star could be in doubt, due to a new arbitration that also saw a director of the groundbreaking punk-rock group’s parent company removed.

The decision was a legal victory for Linda Cummings-Ramone, who is Johnny Ramone’s widow, as Ramones Productions Inc. director David Frey was ordered to be removed as director of RPI immediately and cannot be reelected to the same post again for five years.

In a statement shared with Billboard, Cummings-Ramone said she was “thrilled” and that they “will now finally be able to move forward and create and expand the legacy of the best band ever.”

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I could totally see Pete Davidson as Joey Ramone.