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"Film4 is backing a biopic about The Clash frontman Joe Strummer from the team behind Sex &amp;amp; Drugs &amp;amp; Rock &amp;amp; Roll. The project - titled Joe Public - will be steered by Simon Halfon (Sleuth) alongside Sex producer Damian Jones and screenwriter Paul Viragh, reports The Playlist. Their Ian Dury biopic earned a BAFTA nomination for star Andy Serkis earlier this year. Strummer founded punk group The Clash in 1976, notching up six studio albums and several top 20 singles including &amp;#039;Tommy Gun&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;London Calling&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Should I Stay Or Should I Go&amp;#039;.  The group split in 1986 and Strummer went on to have a successful solo recording career and appear in films such as Alex Cox&amp;#039;s Straight To Hell and Jim Jarmusch&amp;#039;s Mystery Train. The musician, who passed away in 2002, was also the subject of Julien Temple documentary Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten and Don Letts\u00E2\u20AC\u2122s film Strummerville. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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