Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie (6 page)

Frank statue.

And then the unveiling:

The unveiling.

In eight weeks’ time our Frank film, starring Michael Fassbender, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Domhnall Gleeson, will be premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. As I prepare to go to it I
remember something Chris once said to me. It was late one night, and we were in the van, reminiscing about a show we’d played a few weeks earlier at JB’s nightclub in Dudley, West
Midlands. It was very poorly attended. There can’t have been more than fifteen people in the audience. One of them produced a ball, the audience split into teams and, ignoring us, played a
game. In the van Chris smiled wistfully.

‘That Dudley gig,’ he said.

‘Ah ha?’ I said.

‘Best show we ever played,’ he said.

THE END

Frank
, the movie.

Frank

Jon Ronson is an award-winning writer and documentary maker. He is the author of four bestsellers,
Them: Adventures with Extremists
,
The Men Who Stare at Goats
,
The Psychopath Test
and
Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries
, and two collections,
Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness
and
What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness
. He lives in London and New York City.

Also by Jon Ronson

Them: Adventures with Extremists

The Men Who Stare at Goats

Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness

What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries

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© Arfon Jones. With thanks to Arfon Jones;
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Picture courtesy of Element Pictures/Runaway Fridge Films. Photographer Jonathan Hession

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