Napier-Bell, who managed the duo, says the movie would focus on "the band's heyday from 1983 to 1985." Wham! didn't stick together for long, but apparently a couple of years is all you need for a "lavish chronicle of the hedonistic pop duo." On Napier-Bell's own website, he describes a business-like George Michael who, even in the early days, was very focused on the bottom line. Here's some business for Michael to mull over: The film has a budget of £50m. That's almost $100 million bucks, for those of us in the States. It boggles the mind that a Wham! movie could cost so much. (How much do peroxide and a case of those "Choose Life" T-shirts cost? Are they constructing an animatronic Andrew Ridgeley for when the real thing busies himself surfing?) But it seems like any savvy businessman would want a chunk of that, in case he ever got arrested again for being, you know, "hedonistic."

*In real life, Emperor Joseph II had banned ballet, not music. But whatever. It was a movie, not Austrian History 101.