by We owe them the tubes “Wind of Change” or “Still Loving You”, the rock scorpions group will be entitled to its biopic!
Musical biopics have decidedly the wind in its sails! While Springsteen: Delive me from Nowhere, the film which traces the creation of the album Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen with Jeremy Allen White in the title role, released on October 22 in our rooms, and that Michael, the film by Antoine Fuqua on Michael Jackson, is expected for 2026, a new biopic has just been announced!
And it's the turn of the German rock group Scorpions to be entitled to its biopic! Entitled Wind of Change, the feature will retrace the meteoric ascent of musicians, from their beginnings to Hanover to their planetary tube “Wind of Change”, hymn of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The film will also be interested in behind the scenes of their career, their XXL tours, their excesses … and the genesis of songs that have become cult like “Still Loving You” or “Rock you like a Hurricane”. Wind of Change is written by Mark Andrews and staged by Alex Ranarivelo.
Beastica
Dominic West (The Crown) will play the role of the group manager, Doc McGhee; Alexander Dreymon (The Last Kingdom) will play guitarist Rudolf Schenker; Ludwig Trepte (Generation War) will lend his features to singer Klaus Meine; Ed Speleers (You) will slip into the skin of Matthias Jabs; Luke Brandon Field (Jojo Rabbit) will be drummer Herman Rarebell; And David Kross (The Reader) will play Andrej, the friend of the group located on the other side of the Berlin Wall.
Wind of Change is produced by Ali Afshar, founder and president of ESX Entertainment. The latter declared in a press release relayed by Deadline ::“The development of this film was an incredible adventure. Not only does Scorpions music helped me overcome enormous difficulties as Iranian immigrant in America in the early 1980s, but their message of love, peace and rock'n'roll seems more relevant today than ever.
This distribution is an incredible set of great talents. I can never thank Fox Entertainment enough and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment for their support, and especially the group – Rudolf, Klaus and Matthias – for having believed in us and having trusted us to tell the story of their life. “”
The shooting has just started in the studios of Warner Bros. In London, for theaters at the end of the year, according to information from Deadline.
The Scorpions group has sold more than 110 million albums worldwide. It is one of the German groups that has been best exported. Their hits “Rock you like a Hurricane” and “Wind of Change” continue to be massively listened to streaming, the latter having exceeded one billion streams on all platforms.
