Heart's Ann Wilson revealed that the first biopic on the band is currently in the works. While talking to Yahoo Entertainment/SiriusXM Volume, she revealed that the still-unnamed project on her and sister Nancy Wilson's life and career, is being written and directed by fellow Seattleite, actress/musician Carrie Brownstein — best known from Sleater-Kinney and co-star of IFC’s Portlandia. Wilson shed some light on the film's pre-production, explaining, “A few actresses have come forward, but no one that's right. Anne Hathaway came forward, but I don't think she's exactly right for it. I just don't have any idea. I'm too close to it. But it's known that the role of Nancy and the role of me is being cast. . . I'm just as excited about finding out as you are.”
Wilson went on to say that the film begins with the sisters' childhood and wraps in the 1990's: “It's still being written right now. I saw the first draft of (Brownstein’s) script, and it's really cool (and) definitely coming along (but I) still in development right now because of COVID slowed everything down.”
She spoke about how Heart now approaches some of their monster '80s hits — which at times defied he and sister Nancy's more rocking stylistic choices: “They can be made cool, but you have to stay true to what made people like them back in the '80s. Like 'Never,' which has absolutely nothing to it at all, except the word 'Never'! You have to figure out a way to frame this word 'never' and make it bounce along and be compelling. It's kind of a tightrope to walk, because you don't want to take the song 'Never' and turn it into reggae or something like that. Of course, the whole point of the ‘80s was to be not authentic, was to be a sort of light and poppy, with all that weird makeup and strange hair and all that. I mean, it was all about being theatrical and unreal.”