The Who's Daltrey 'calls for Moon biopic'

The Who's Roger Daltrey has declared that he is still keen to make a film about the band's ill-fated drummer Keith Moon.

Although plans for a movie about Moon - who died in 1978 - have long been in the pipeline, Daltrey insisted that he is yet to find the right person to draft the script.

"The Keith Moon film depends on someone sitting me down long enough with a writer to get it right. If I sat down for six weeks with a good writer, I could get it done," he told the Daily Star. "I've got it all in pictures in my head. I know what the film should look like, the way the narrative should be structured."

Daltrey added that he has rejected previous efforts – including one said to have been penned with Mike Myers in mind to play the lead as Moon.

"Every time I've left a writer to it before now, they say, 'OK, I see what you mean, I know what you want', and then they go off on a complete tangent from what we've agreed because they don't know what it feels like to be in a band," he explained.

"That is one of the big problems with Keith's life – it needs to be written by someone who was there. It needs more time than I've been able to give it. But I'd love to have the time to do it justice with the right writer."