Weezer Guys Try To Look Like Lou Reed And John Cale Instead Of Buddy Holly

Weezer guitarist Brian Bell and drummer Patrick Wilson are trying their hand at acting by playing two more famous musicians in the forthcoming Edie Sedgwick biopic, Factory Girl.

Bell will play the Velvet Underground's Lou Reed while Wilson will portray bandmate John Cale in the George Hickenlooper-directed film about Andy Warhol's Factory art scene that was an incubator for VU and actresses like Sedgwick in the mid-'60s.

Moe Tucker was the Velvet Underground's drummer, but since Wilson isn't (to the best of our knowledge) a woman, Samantha Maloney (Hole, Motley Crue, Eagles Of Death Metal) will play her in the movie. Actress Meredith Ostrom captured the role of German chanteuse Nico, who contributed to the first VU album.

This latest batch of musicians follow in the footsteps of Yo La Tengo, who portrayed the Velvets in Canadian director Mary Harron's 1996 film, I Shot Andy Warhol.

Bell and Wilson recorded a cover of Reed's chillingly graphic "Heroin" for the movie, with Bell handling vocals.

"There was no premeditated plan, no rehearsal, there was barely even a discussion of how to approach this seven minute ride," wrote Bell on Weezer's website. "I was a bit nervous going into it because the song still needed to be approved by the film's makers, who were coming to the studio to meet us and probably also to see that their investment was not in vain. As far as I know they are satisfied and haven't changed their minds."

Though The Factory was a quintessentially New York City phenomenon, Bell and Wilson shot their scenes in Shreveport, Louisiana, where Wilson writes on his site that he "mastered video bowling with advanced techniques" with actor Jimmy Fallon. Siena Miller plays Sedgwick (who was further immortalized by The Cult's "Edie [Ciao Baby]") and Guy Pearce portrays Warhol in the film, which also features Hayden Christensen, Peter Bogdanovich and Mena Suvari.

While Wilson is optimistic about how the movie will be received when it's released later this year, Reed told the New York Daily News that he read the script and wasn't impressed.

"It's one of the most disgusting, foul things I've seen — by any illiterate retard — in a long time," said the noted curmudgeon, who was a house songwriter responsible for trying to come up with hits for Pickwick Records before he launched a musical revolution by forming the Velvet Underground in 1965. "There's no limit to how low some people will go to write something to make money."