Devo Movie On The Way

De-evolution, Energy Domes and geeky post-punk will come to the big screen at some point in the future via a Devo biopic.

Devo bassist Gerald Casale told Flavorwire he's working on the first draft of the film with Rolling Stone magazine's Matt Diehl. Casale says the film follows Devo through their early days, including signing their first record deal, touring and performing on Saturday Night Live.

"It’s about Devo in the sad, sad Akron days beginning in 1974," Casale told the website. "It shows the truth, which is stranger than fiction, where, against all odds, and totally whacked-out, this art band goes from being this hopeless joke everyone laughs at... to synching up with the new wave and punk movements."

Casale, singer/keyboardist Mark Mothersbaugh, singer/guitarist Bob Mothersbaugh, guitarist/keyboardist/singer Bob Casale and drummer Josh Freese are working on the first Devo studio album since 1990's Smooth Noodle Maps. It should be out in the fall.

Devo performed last month at the South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas and will appear at London, England's Kentish Town Forum on May 6 and at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Minehead, England two days later.

While the Devo film makes slow progress, the rumoured Iggy Pop biopic starring Elijah Wood looks less likely to happen now. Pop shot down the idea at a March 26 press conference in Paris, France to promote his forthcoming Preliminaires jazz album.

“I don’t think so," the Stooges frontman replied when asked if the biopic was going forward. "I reacted bad.

"It opens with my mother and father worrying about me. My father was alive at the time and it felt like an intrusion. They can wait for me to be dead. Fuck you, I won’t do your biopic promo.”