Editing Iggy Pop (section)

==Biopic {{Anchor|Future biopic}}<!-- Courtesy note per WP:RSECT, The Passenger (2007 film) and others link here -->==
''The Passenger'' was the putative name for a biographical film about Pop's early career with the Stooges. The film was to be directed by [[Nick Gomez (director)|Nick Gomez]] and [[Elijah Wood]] was to play Pop.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=20435 |title=Elijah Wood to Play Iggy Pop – |publisher=Comingsoon.net |date=May 16, 2007 |access-date=September 30, 2011 |archive-date=January 21, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120121184535/http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=20435 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://variety.com/2007/film/asia/wood-to-star-as-iggy-pop-1117965043/ |work=Variety |title=Wood to star as Iggy Pop |first=Patrick |last=Frater |date=May 16, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.soundandvisionmag.com/entertainment/993/backtalk-with-elijah-wood.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206012356/http://www.soundandvisionmag.com/entertainment/993/backtalk-with-elijah-wood.html|url-status=dead|title=Sound and Vision Magazine – BackTalk: Elijah Wood|archive-date=December 6, 2008}}</ref>

Pop liked the script but refused to take part in the film. He said:

{{blockquote|The script ain't chopped liver ... It was a work of art. But subjectively, I don't want to be involved in any way. A producer and the writer sent me a very decent letter and asked me to write back if I didn't want them to do it ... I don't feel negative about it at all.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Iggy Pop Refuses To Take Part in Biopic|url=http://www.contactmusic.com/iggy-pop/news/iggy-pop-refuses-to-take-part-in-biopic|magazine=[[Contactmusic.com]]|date=January 11, 2006|access-date=March 22, 2019}}</ref>}}

He also called Wood "a very poised and talented actor".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.gigwise.com/news.asp?ContentID=12309 |title=GIGWISE, Elijah Wood To Play Iggy Pop in Movie Biopic |work=Gigwise.com |access-date=September 30, 2011}}</ref>

The project appears to have been shelved.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Thiessen|first=Brooke|title=Iggy Pop Nixes Biopic|url=http://exclaim.ca/music/article/iggy_pop_nixes_biopic|magazine=[[Exclaim!]]|date=March 31, 2009|access-date=March 22, 2019}}</ref>