Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait will turn the Kinks album Schoolboys In Disgrace into a movie.
The comedian best known as the lunatic cop from the Police Academy films and as a director of freaky films Shakes The Clown and World's Greatest Dad will makes the kooky concept album into a bizarre silver screen musical.The 1976 concept album purports to be able a "naughty little schoolboy" who "always playing tricks on the teachers and bullying other children in the school." The naughty schoolboy gets in trouble with a naughty schoolgirl and is disgraced by the school principal.
The album is actually the genesis story of Mr Flash, the supervillain who previously appeared in the rock opera across two albums Preservation Act 1 and 2.
Goldthwait told The Hollywood Reporter that all this saucy silliness will be "a realistic high school musical for all the kids who hate sugary, sweet, unrealistic high-school musicals."
Kinks singer Ray Davies has signed on as executive co-producer. No word on the cast yet, although producers have said that they will be rerecording the original songs from the album for the film's soundtrack.
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