Fox Searchlight is negotiating for the rights to a biopic about The Ramones, which is awesome because they make by far my favorite t-shirts at Target. Great logos.

The specialty division is in negotiations to board a project about the life of the Ramones, based on a memoir titled “I Slept With Joey Ramone” by the musician’s brother — and, notably, featuring the band’s tunes. Written by Joey Ramone’s brother Mickey Leigh and longtime punk writer and Ramones chronicler Legs McNeil, the book centers on the life of Joey Ramone, aka Jeffrey Hyman.  The memoir is set to be published by Simon & Schuster imprint Fireside in December.  Manager-producer Rory Rosegarten is a former exec producer on “Everybody Loves Raymond” who negotiated several years ago to buy the rights to the book as it was being written and, most critically, the rights to the music. [Variety]

Of course, there was already Rock N Roll High School (which Howard Stern wants to remake — with script by Alex Winter!), and the 2004 documentary End of the Century, so one wonders why we’d need a biopic. Also, almost the whole band is dead. But hey, those t-shirts ain’t gonna sell themselves, right?  After all, this a a producer on Everybody Loves Raymond we’re talking here.  Maybe they could call it Everybody Loves Raymones. Oof, it hurt to type that.  I apologize.  Also, there’s this:

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In a decision which I can only assume was based on the number of times a day Howard Stern hears, "Hey, you know who you look like? Joey Ramone," Stern is producing a remake of the 1979 Ramones classic Rock ‘n’ Roll High School, along with Larry Levinson. Stern has hired Alex Winter to write the script. And yes, that’s the same Alex Winter who played Bill in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Marco in Lost Boys.

The only reason I can see for hiring Winter is if Stern thinks he still has access to that time machine telephone booth thingie, because the only good thing about the original Rock ‘n’ Roll High School was that the Ramones were in it, and all the original members are dead. I mean, I guess they could point the camera at grafitti that says "fun" and zoom in and out again.  That was pretty cool.

Pic was about a group of rebellious students who, with the help of punk rock band the Ramones, thwarted a repressive, rock-music-hating principal. [Variety]

Maybe in the new one Good Charlotte can teach kids that drugs are bad and Jesus is cool with the help of eyeliner, ProTools, and a good publicist.