Portlandia‘s Carrie Brownstein will be going crazy on the classic rock band Heart in her directorial debut, and Ann Wilson couldn’t be happier.

“I saw the first draft of the script,” Wilson said on Lyndsey Parker’s Volume West show on SiriusXM. “It’s really cool. She (Brownstein) is working with the movie company — Amazon — and with the producer, Linda Obst, who did Sleepless in Seattle.” 

Obst also directed Flashdance, Adventures in Babysitting, and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.

Brownstein is no stranger to rock and roll: before she was a big name on television, she formed and fronted the riot grrrl band Sleater-Kinney. She also blogged about music for NPR.

Though this will be her first feature, she has directed television before, helming episodes of Search Party, Mrs. Fletcher and A.P. Bio, among others. Her writing credits include the films The Nowhere Inn and Search and Destroy.

The as-yet-unnamed film will tell the story of Heart lead vocalists (and sisters) Ann and Nancy Wilson’s childhood and rise to fame through the 1990s, with a special focus on the period in the ’80s when Heart was most commercially successful but the band felt they no longer had artistic freedom.

The picture is slated for a 2021 premiere, and is still in early development thanks to the pandemic. No names have been dropped for the roles of Ann and Nancy, though one big star isn’t in the running.

“A few actresses have come forward, but no one that’s right,” Ann Wilson said on the program. “Anne Hathaway came forward, but I don’t think she’s exactly right for it.”

She explained that she isn’t dictating who she would like to see take on the roles: “I just don’t have any idea. I’m too close to it … I’m just as excited about finding out as you are.”

Whoever is eventually cast may not be a singer, as it hasn’t been decided if actors will lip-sync or perform Heart songs. “That’s still in development right now,” Wilson said. “Because of Covid, it slowed everything down. But it’s definitely coming along.”

Wilson’s latest release is a cover of Steve Earle’s “The Revolution Starts Now.”