First Weird Al Movie Trailer Is Actually… Weird

A new trailer has been produced for Strange: The Al Yankovic Story. The film is mentioned to current the legitimate-lifetime tale about the difficult lifetime and career of one of the biggest-promoting comedy artists of all time.

In the film’s freshly released trailer, we see a packed stadium group contacting on out for Strange Al who is performed by a shockingly in good shape Daniel Radcliffe.

In the trailer, the actor requires a swig of whiskey in advance of busting out Yankovic’s signature accordion. Throughout the effectiveness, the audio of “Like a Surgeon,” a parody of Madonna’s, “Like a Virgin,” played on phase to the praise of supporters.

If the trailer reminds you of a 2010 Amusing or Die sketch with a very similar premise, that is mainly because the director of that short is also the author and director of this movie, Eric Appel.

“I could not be extra fired up for persons to see it,” Radcliffe said in an interview with the New York Periods about the motion picture, “I did a person shot the other day and Al walked up to me afterward and was like, ‘Is that the weirdest thing you have at any time had to do?’ I was like, ‘It’s prime two, with the only other one particular being Paul Dano riding me like a Jet Ski at the starting of Swiss Army Guy.”

Strange Al Yankovic is a parody songwriter and musician in his personal proper who has had a amazing 45-yr vocation. The songwriter has gained 6 platinum information and 5 Grammys, and nevertheless retains concert events that sell out even to this working day. Yankovic is a co-writer of this comedic biopic movie about his existence.

Considering that leaving the Harry Potter franchise, Daniel Radcliffe has made a career starring in a string of alternatively eccentric indies, this kind of as Swiss Military Army, Horns, and Guns Akimbo.

But the Bizarre Al biopic could be the weirdest of them all.

Christian Angeles is a Freelance Writer for IGN.