Cameron Crowe has offered an update on the Joni Mitchell biopic he’s directing.

The filmmaker and lifelong Joni Mitchell fan was originally revealed to have been secretly working on the film in 2023, and now, he’s offered some more details in an interview with Ultimate Classic Rock. “I’m super excited. We’re going to start in by the end of this year and hopefully have it done for Christmas next year,” he said.

He compared it to his recently-unearthed-and-completed 1983 Tom Petty documentary Heartbreakers Beach Party, saying “It’s Joni’s life, not through anybody else’s prism. It’s through her prism. It’s the characters who impacted her life that you know and a lot that you don’t know. And the music is so cinematic.”

Crowe elaborated that he and his team has been conducting thorough research. “I found a lot of the people from her early life,...