Joni Mitchell Nixes Biopic That Would Have Starred Taylor Swift

Joni Mitchell's rise to fame was slated to a major part of a movie project about female singer songwriters in the '60s. It was also reported that Taylor Swift had been pegged to play Joni in an adaptation of 'Girls Like Us,' about the careers of Mitchell, Carole King and Carly Simon.

Not any more.

Taylor really really wanted the role, but in a recent interview, Mitchell revealed that it won’t be happening any time soon. “I squelched that,” Joni told “The Sunday Times.” “I said to the producer ‘All you’ve got is a girl with high cheekbones.’”

But it doesn’t sound like Taylor is the only thing Joni didn’t like about the project. She said of Sheila Weller’ssource material, “it’s just a lot of gossip, you don’t have the great scenes. There’s a lot of nonsense about me in books, assumptions, assumptions, assumptions.”

Movie great John Sayles ('Eight Men Out') was slated to write and direct the project, which has been shaky since the get-go.

Even Swift was quoted as saying the project was far from being a done deal. "I wish I could say it's confirmed!" Swift was quoted on the film back in 2012. " But the thing about movies that I've learned is – I've been reading scripts for five years, and you just don't know what ones are going to get greenlit and which ones aren't, so I can't talk about it unless it's the real thing."

But tell me Joni didn't look a little like Taylor Swift in the '60s.