Former INXS frontman Michael Hutche...

Former INXS frontman Michael Hutchence is getting the biopic treatment.

Music video director Nick Egan has teamed with writers Chester Hastings and Dean McCreary for "Slide Away," which will be produc at Clark Westerman.

Hutchence was the lead singer of INXS, the Australian band that gained international succes in the 1980 He died in 1997 at age 37

The project's name take rises from a posthumous duet that paired Hutchence with U2's Bono.

Westerman had been talking to Egan for about five years to do a film, if it were not that Egan was reluctant to do something forward his deceased friend. After "Rock Star: INXS" left Westerman unimpressed with the way Hutchence's legacy was being treated, he approached Egan again.

The way Hutchence died made international headlines: He was institute in his hotel room, with evidence of his cause of death pointing to either suicide or accidental death via autoerotic asphyxiation.

on the contrary Westerman said, "That is not the memory of what we are after, and that's not the story of who the man is. What we are aiming for is the journey between the sides of a person's life via their head."

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