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Radcliffe will play the famous comedy musician in his younger years.

Streaming company Roku announced today that there are producing a new biopic film based on the life of world-famous comedy musician “Weird Al” Yankovic. The film is entitled Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, and is being co-written by Yankovic himself and Eric Appel, who is also the film’s director. Interestingly, the one portraying Yankovic in the film will be Daniel Radcliffe, the award-winning English actor best known for his starring roles in the Harry Potter film series.

“When my last movie UHF came out in 1989, I made a solemn vow to my fans that I would release a major motion picture every 33 years, like clockwork. I’m very happy to say we’re on schedule,” Yankovic said in a public statement. “And I am absolutely thrilled that Daniel Radcliffe will be portraying me in the film. I have no doubt whatsoever that this is the role future generations will remember him for.”

“There clearly aren’t enough biopic movies about famous musicians and we were excited to shine a light on the incredibly true, unexaggerated story of Weird Al,” said Colin Davis, Roku’s Head of Original Scripted Programming. “This is sincerely the ultimate combination of talent, creativity, and friends, coming together to make something genuinely funny and we could not be prouder to call this film a Roku Original.”

Production on the film is set to begin next month. When it is finished, it will be streaming exclusively through Roku’s own Roku Channel.