Dakota and Elle Fanning are in talks to take their sisterly bond to the silver screen in a biopic feature film about the oddly fascinating '60s girl-group The Shaggs.
The siblings would play two of the four sisters that comprised this no-hit band.
Wait… if the group had no hits, why make a movie about it at all?
It's time to talk about a little thing called backstory: The Shaggs was made up of the four New Hampshire Wiggin sisters — Dot, Betty, Helen and Rachel — who had no musical aptitude, but formed a band anyway because their father, Austin Wiggin, insisted his mother's session with a palm reader foresaw their global success despite their awkward, gangly appearance and complete lack of talent.
If only they had "American Idol" back then.
Encouraged Forced by their father, the Wiggin sisters recorded one disastrous album, 1969's "Philosophy of the World," which was panned, pretty much, by everyone.
Well… almost everyone. Frank Zappa declared them "better than the Beatles," New York Magazine recounts. (Just some food for thought.)
If this gets the green light with the Fanning sisters, it will be second time Dakota tackles a girl band, though we're not sure the hard partying international sex symbol Cherie Currie has much in common with these Wiggins girls.
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Carrie
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