EXCLUSIVE: Utopia Originals has the documentary The Way I Was Made: The Story of a Man Called E in the works. The pic follows the founder of the Los Angeles indie pop rock band Eels, Mark Oliver Everett aka E, as he battles his lifelong struggles navigating mental health and music.
Three-time Emmy winner Judd Apatow has come aboard to produce with Utopia founder Robert Schwartzman. Gus Black is directing.
The title is the latest in a series of rock docs from Utopia following Meet Me in the Bathroom, Hung Up on a Dream: The Zombies Documentary and Pavements.
As a teenager, Everett found his brilliant but troubled father dead. Years later, just as his dreams of becoming a musician began to take shape, he lost both his sister and his mother in devastating succession. Confronted with unimaginable
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