Bonnie Somerville at 'Walk Hard' Premiere At Grauman's Chinese Theater On Hollywood Blvd

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is an upcoming comedy film expected to be released on December 21, 2007. The film received an R rating from the MPAA for sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and language. Judd Apatow, who directed The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, is co-writing and producing the film.

Walk Hard stars John C. Reilly as a fictional musician named Dewey Cox, and Jenna Fischer as his backup singer and wife, Darlene. The movie is a parody of the biopic genre, and mainly parodies the 2005 film, Walk the Line, which documented the life of Johnny Cash. The story follows Dewey as he eventually gets caught up in the fame of rock and roll.

The tongue-in-cheek references in this fake biopic were drawn from a variety of sources. Apatow and Kasdan noted that they watched various types of biopics for inspiration including those of Jimi Hendrix and Marilyn Monroe. The movie's poster is a reference to the "young lion" photos of Jim Morrison.

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