Sting Turns Down Making Biopic On Him; Choses Artistic Way

Musical legend, Sting is in no mood to join the just of celebrities who have had major motion pictures dedicated to their lives in the form of a biopic.

He instead said, “I’m telling my story in an artistic way.”

That way is with the musical The Last Ship, which runs at the Ahmanson Theatre until Feb. 16. (It’s a different version from the one that ran on Broadway for four months in 2014.) Sting wrote the music and lyrics and plays the foreman of a Newcastle shipyard in the show, which draws from his early years growing up in a grim, ship-building town in Northern England. 

He said on the film treatment, "Absolutely not. I just don't think I want to. I'm telling my story in an artistic way. [The Last Ship] is a metaphor. This is a story about me. I'm in this play in many ways — probably more than I intended to. But the character I'm playing is built on composites of people like my father, uncles, people I was brought up with. That's the way I want to do it, rather than somebody going, "What's the arc of Sting's life?" I haven't finished it yet."

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