{{short description|2001 film by Stephen Herek}} {{redirect|Steel Dragon||Steel dragon (disambiguation)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Rock Star | image = Rock star ver1.jpg | alt = | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = Stephen Herek | producer = Robert Lawrence<br />Toby Jaffe | writer = John Stockwell | starring = Mark Wahlberg<br />Jennifer Aniston<br />Jason Flemyng<br />Timothy Olyphant<br />Timothy Spall<br />Dominic West | music = Trevor Rabin | cinematography = Ueli Steiger | editing = Trudy Ship | studio = Bel-Air Entertainment<br />Maysville Pictures | distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures | released = {{Film date|2001|9|7}} | runtime = 105 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $38–57 million<ref name="numbers">{{cite web|url=http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Rock-Star#tab=summary|title=Rock Star - Box Office Data, DVD and Blu-ray Sales, Movie News, Cast and Crew Information|website=The Numbers|access-date=May 18, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=rockstar.htm|title=Rock Star (2001)|website=Box Office Mojo|publisher=IMDb|access-date=May 18, 2014}}</ref> | gross = $19.3 million }} '''''Rock Star''''' is a 2001 American musical comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Herek, written by John Stockwell, and starring Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston. It tells the story of Chris "Izzy" Cole, a tribute band singer who ascends to the position of lead vocalist in his favorite band.
The script was inspired by the real-life story of Tim "Ripper" Owens, a singer in a Judas Priest tribute band who was chosen to replace singer Rob Halford when he temporarily left the band. After optioning the filming rights to a ''New York Times'' profile of Owens by Andrew Revkin, Warner Bros. Pictures hired Stockwell to write the script. Brad Pitt was initially signed to play the lead role, but left due to creative differences, and Wahlberg was eventually hired for the part.
''Rock Star'' was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on September 7, 2001, garnered mixed reviews from critics, and was a box office failure, grossing $19.3 million worldwide against a production budget of $38–57 million.
==Plot== {{Long plot|date=May 2026}}<!-- Current (2026-05-21) length: 1021 words --> <!-- Summarize Film plot with your own 400–700 words as per MOS:PLOTLENGTH. Do NOT submit copyrighted/paraphrased content from other web sites. For "How To" guidance, see How to streamline a plot summary, WP:PLOTSUM, MOS:PLOT, & MOS:FILMPLOT -->In 1985, Pittsburgh resident Chris Cole is a fanatical admirer of a heavy metal band called Steel Dragon. By day, Chris is a photocopier technician and by night, he is the lead singer of a Steel Dragon tribute band called Blood Pollution (the name is taken from a Steel Dragon song).
Internal struggles among the actual Steel Dragon band members culminate in firing their lead singer, Bobby Beers, and the beginning of recruitment sessions to find a new vocalist. Chris experiences strife with his Blood Pollution bandmates, particularly guitarist Rob Malcolm. During a show, Rob plays a guitar solo instead of following the note-for-note accuracy of the original Steel Dragon song. After Chris sabotages Rob's amplifier mid-song, there is a fight between the two onstage. The next day, Chris goes to rehearsal but discovers he has been replaced by his arch-rival Bradley, the erstwhile lead vocalist of another Steel Dragon tribute band. Rob and Chris argue, and Rob criticizes Chris for preferring to remain the singer in a tribute band rather than create his own music.
One day, Chris receives an unexpected phone call from Steel Dragon's founder and rhythm guitarist, Kirk Cuddy, and is offered an audition for the band (thanks to two of Blood Pollution's groupies, who showed Kirk a videotape of one of Blood Pollution's concerts). After hanging up on Kirk once, thinking Rob is pranking him, Chris ecstatically agrees. At the studio, he meets the band, as well as them arguing with Beers, who is being kicked out for not turning up for recording sessions, missing gigs, and lackluster performances with Beers revealing that he is gay. Chris gives an outstanding performance of "We All Die Young" (a Steel Dragon song in the movie, but it is an actual song by Steelheart, whose lead vocalist, Miljenko Matijevic, provides Cole's singing voice for the film). Chris joins the band as their new singer, adopting the stage name "Izzy." Following a successful debut concert with Steel Dragon, Izzy must face the pressures of his newfound fame and success. The band embarks on a lengthy tour, and Izzy experiences the excesses of the lifestyle. The group's road manager, Mats, is a sympathetic mentor to Izzy.
His new lifestyle impacts his life for better and worse, particularly with his relationship with his supportive girlfriend, Emily Poule, when she decides not to continue with him throughout the remainder of the tour as a rock star girlfriend. However, Emily and Izzy agree to get back together when the tour reaches Seattle. Eventually, Steel Dragon stops in Seattle for a show, and Emily arrives at his hotel room as they had previously arranged. Although Izzy has become so drunk while on tour, he forgets about the arrangement and does not even know what city he is in. Although taken aback by all the groupies, Emily still tries to reconnect with him, reminding him of their plans to meet up once he gets to Seattle; however, he is too intoxicated to understand what she is saying, eventually suggesting they go to Seattle together. Heartbroken by his inconsiderate behavior, intoxication, and the fact that he is having sex with so many groupies, Emily leaves him.
6 months later, Izzy reports to the next series of Steel Dragon recording sessions with song concepts and artwork for the band's next album. The rest of the band likes his ideas, but they reject them, with Kirk explaining that the band has to stay true to the "Steel Dragon thing" to fulfill fan expectations. Izzy is angered upon realizing he was only recruited for his vocal abilities. After a heartfelt conversation with Mats about how he feared he had no control over the direction life had taken him, Izzy begins to reconsider his rock star lifestyle.
On the next tour, in a scene directly paralleling one near the film's beginning with their roles reversed, Izzy hears a fan singing along with him toward the end of a live concert. Impressed, Chris invites the fan onstage, has a microphone provided to the fan by a roadie, and the pair perform together in sync on stage with the band while imitating Chris's established stage performance/act. After the song, Chris and the fan exit backstage, and the fan introduces himself as Thor while expressing to Chris his immense appreciation for the band and spiritual love for Chris himself. Chris offers Thor to "blow the roof off" by taking his place on stage - essentially finishing the set. Thor gleefully accepts and proceeds to assume the lead singer role and perform on stage with the rest of the band, without Chris. While observing Thor's excitement that his dream is being lived, Chris realizes that his priorities have changed, implying he has grown out of the desire to live the Rockstar lifestyle and that he has matured to the point he wants to pursue developing his legacy writing music and sharing a life with Emily. Chris exits the stage, approaches Mats, and lets him know he is going to take a piss - which is code for he is leaving for good. Mats nods, understanding the implication of Chris's intent, and Chris departs the concert.
After leaving Steel Dragon and ditching his rock star image and stage name, Chris travels to Seattle and starts a new band with his old friend and former bandmate, Rob, allowing him to write his music. Chris finds Emily working in the coffee shop that she and her roommate purchased a few years earlier, and he is initially too ashamed to speak to her. While walking one evening, Emily sees a flyer for his band posted on the wall and takes it down. In the final scene, Chris sings with his band in a bar, and Emily walks in. Chris leaves the stage and speaks to her. They reconcile, ending the film with a kiss and the final note of Chris' first original song, "Colorful" (which is an actual song by the Verve Pipe).
During the credits, Cuddy talks about the band's future, and Bobby Beers is shown to have taken up Irish Dancing after his sacking from Steel Dragon.
==Cast== The band members are portrayed by ex-Dokken and current Foreigner bassist Jeff Pilson; Black Label Society founder and Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde; actor Dominic West; and ex-Foreigner and Black Country Communion drummer Jason Bonham (the son of the late John Bonham, drummer for Led Zeppelin). Myles Kennedy, who was at the time the lead vocalist of the Mayfield Four and now the front man of Alter Bridge and Slash's solo project, makes a cameo appearance.
The singing voice for Wahlberg's character was provided by Steelheart frontman Miljenko Matijevic for the Steel Dragon Songs, and the final number was sung by Brian Vander Ark of The Verve Pipe. Jeff Scott Soto (of Talisman, Yngwie Malmsteen, Soul SirkUS, and Journey) provided the voice of Jason Flemyng's character Bobby Beers. Ralph Saenz (aka Michael Starr of Steel Panther) also appears briefly, as the singer auditioning ahead of Chris at the studio.
Tribute band Blood Pollution is also made up of known musical artists, including guitarist Nick Catanese (Black Label Society), drummer Blas Elias (Slaughter), and bassist Brian Vander Ark (The Verve Pipe, who also contributed a song to the film's soundtrack). Actor Timothy Olyphant portrays Blood Pollution's guitarist, Rob Malcolm. Bradley, the singer who replaces Chris in Blood Pollution, is played by Third Eye Blind frontman Stephan Jenkins.
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==Production== After ''The New York Times'' ran a story on Tim "Ripper" Owens in 1997, various Hollywood studios ran to option the filming rights. Warner Bros. Pictures won the bid, and hired John Stockwell to write the script. Stockwell soon began researching the heavy metal music and tribute band scene and visited Owens' hometown of Akron, Ohio.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.ew.com/article/2001/10/05/rock-stars-writer-went-heavy-metal-school|title=''Rock Star''{{'}}s writer went to heavy-metal school|last=Stockwell|first=John|author-link=John Stockwell (actor)|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|date=October 5, 2001|access-date=June 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507011701/https://ew.com/article/2001/10/05/rock-stars-writer-went-heavy-metal-school/|archive-date=May 7, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> Afterwards the project, under the working title ''Metal God'', got the involvement of George Clooney's newly founded Maysville Pictures.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/1997/film/news/clooney-tunes-prod-n-pipeline-1116678266/|title=Clooney tunes prod'n pipeline|last=Karon|first=Paul|magazine=Variety|date=August 19, 1997|access-date=June 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619163105/https://variety.com/1997/film/news/clooney-tunes-prod-n-pipeline-1116678266/|archive-date=June 19, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Brad Pitt signed to star in 1998, but wound up dropping the project following creative differences with the studio.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.ew.com/article/2001/09/07/why-pitt-aniston-didnt-costar-rock-star|title=Why Pitt, Aniston didn't costar in ''Rock Star''|last=Bonin|first=Liane|author-link=Liane Bonin|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|date=September 7, 2001|access-date=June 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621114707/https://ew.com/article/2001/09/07/why-pitt-aniston-didnt-costar-rock-star/|archive-date=June 21, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> Eventually Mark Wahlberg, a former rapper with Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch who co-starred with Clooney in ''Three Kings'', was hired for the main role in May 1999.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/1999/voices/columns/wahlberg-a-headbanger-x-men-gets-man-1117502566/|title=Wahlberg a headbanger?; 'X-Men' gets man|last=Fleming|first=Michael|magazine=Variety|date=May 27, 1999|access-date=June 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001202052/https://variety.com/1999/voices/columns/wahlberg-a-headbanger-x-men-gets-man-1117502566/|archive-date=October 1, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> Stephen Herek signed to direct in October,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.mtv.com/news/1429860/judas-priest-story-draws-mr-hollands-opus-director/|title=Judas Priest Story Draws "Mr. Holland's Opus" Director|last=Mancini|first=Rob|work=MTV|publisher=Viacom|date=October 22, 1999|access-date=June 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200623103513/http://www.mtv.com/news/1429860/judas-priest-story-draws-mr-hollands-opus-director/|archive-date=June 23, 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the following month Jennifer Aniston became attached for the main female role, while Callie Khouri was hired to revise the script.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/1999/film/news/friend-going-metal-1117757771/|title='Friend' going 'Metal'?|last=Lyons|first=Charles|magazine=Variety|date=November 4, 1999|access-date=June 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180714150729/https://variety.com/1999/film/news/friend-going-metal-1117757771/|archive-date=July 14, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Judas Priest were initially approached, but the band had some objections to the initial script and were phased out as it was rewritten into a more original story loosely based on the facts, in spite of the band still offering to give advice and assistance to the production.<ref name=rollingstone>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/ripper-owens-judas-priest-1382747/|title=Tim 'Ripper' Owens on Judas Priest: 'They've Kind of Erased My Time'|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=July 18, 2022 |author=Greene, Andy}}</ref><ref name=hill/>
Wahlberg spent five months preparing for his role as Chris Cole, working with a vocal coach, growing his hair, attending the metal scene and wandering around Los Angeles in-character.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2001/jul/22/entertainment/ca-25093/4|title=In a Whole New Jungle|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=July 22, 2001|access-date=June 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307163417/http://articles.latimes.com/2001/jul/22/entertainment/ca-25093/4|archive-date=March 7, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> A concert scene was shot at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena before 10,000 Metallica and Megadeth fans.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-sep-06-cl-42543-story.html|title=A Hollywood Rock Star|last=O'Neill|first=Ann|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=September 6, 2001|access-date=June 24, 2015}}</ref> While filming one Steel Dragon performance, the crew pranked Wahlberg by playing Marky Mark's "Good Vibrations" instead of a rock track, and footage of this is featured during the film's end credits.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/news/ni0070172/ Wahlberg Humiliated With Old Track]</ref> By 2001, Warner renamed the project from ''Metal God'' to ''Rock Star'' in order to attract a broader rock fandom instead of just metal fans.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.mtv.com/news/1438027/mark-wahlberg-to-be-rock-star-in-april/|title=Mark Wahlberg To Be 'Rock Star' In April|author=MTV News Staff|work=MTV|publisher=Viacom|date=January 17, 2001|access-date=June 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115012952/https://www.mtv.com/news/1438027/mark-wahlberg-to-be-rock-star-in-april/|archive-date=November 15, 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Reception== The film opened at {{Numero|4}} at the U.S. box office taking US$6,018,636 in its opening weekend,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2001&wknd=36&p=.htm|title=Weekend Box Office Results for September 7–9, 2001|website=Box Office Mojo|publisher=IMDb|access-date=August 6, 2011}}</ref> and grossing a domestic total of $17,008,282 and $2,325,863 internationally for a worldwide gross of $19,334,145; based on a $57 million budget, ''Rock Star'' was a box office bomb.<ref>{{mojo title|rockstar|Rock Star}}</ref>
{{Rotten Tomatoes prose|53|5.4|129|Like its title, ''Rock Star'' is rather generic, being not so much about the heavy metal scene than about rock cliches and formula.|access-date=September 13, 2021|ref=yes}} {{Metacritic film prose|54|32|ref=yes|access-date=February 21, 2021}} Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "B−" on scale of A to F.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/U1RBUg==|title=Movie Title Search: STAR|website=CinemaScore|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190809143716/https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/U1RBUg==|archive-date=August 9, 2019}}</ref>
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it 2.5 out of 4 stars and wrote: "By the end of the film I conceded, yes, there are good performances and the period is well captured, but the movie didn't convince me of the feel and the flavor of its experiences."<ref name="ebert">{{cite news|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/rock-star-2001|title=Rock Star|first=Roger|last=Ebert|author-link=Roger Ebert|newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times|publisher=Sun-Times Media Group|date=September 7, 2001|access-date=February 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516063623/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/rock-star-2001|archive-date=May 16, 2021|url-status=live|via=RogerEbert.com}} {{Rating|2.5|4}}</ref>
Tim "Ripper" Owens, the inspiration for the story, noted to ''Rolling Stone'' that while he considered ''Rock Star'' "a ''Spinal Tap'' kind of movie" that distanced from the real facts to feature "all the cliches of sex, drugs, and rock and roll", he found the portrayal of the band members as accurate and was still flattered to become the basis for a movie.<ref name=rollingstone/> When Judas Priest bassist Ian Hill was asked about his reaction to ''Rock Star'' in an interview in ''PopMatters'' magazine, he said "I mean, I quite enjoyed the movie. <!-- [laughs] --> It was entertaining, you know?" Hill said, "It had nothing to do with Rob Halford, Ripper Owens and Judas Priest, it's got nothing to do with that, whatsoever. It was fiction. Apart from the fact that 'Local Boy Makes Good'? That was the only true aspect of the movie." Hill was quick to add, "I watched it once. I don't have the urge to watch it again.<!-- [laughs] -->"<ref name=hill>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.popmatters.com/judas-priest-interview-2495529544.html|title=' We're All Fans': An Interview with Judas Priest's Ian Hill|last=Maçek III|first=J. C.|magazine=PopMatters|date=June 1, 2015|access-date=September 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922184115/https://www.popmatters.com/judas-priest-interview-2495529544.html|archive-date=September 22, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Soundtrack== {{Infobox album | name = Rock Star | type = soundtrack | artist = various artists | cover = | released = August 28, 2001 | recorded = | genre = Rock | length = | label = Priority | producer = }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r549164}}</ref> }}
A small number of the songs featured in the film and on the soundtrack were released after the dates given in the film. They are marked with an asterisk.
{{Track listing | title18 = | length18 = | title19 = | length19 = | title20 = | length20 = | total_length = 58:59 | all_writing = | extra_column = Artist | title1 = Rock Star | extra1 = Everclear | note1 = Art Alexakis | length1 = 3:30 | title2 = Livin' the Life | extra2 = Steel Dragon | note2 = Steve Plunkett, Peter Beckett | length2 = 3:14 | title3 = Wild Side* | extra3 = Mötley Crüe | note3 = Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee | length3 = 4:34 | title4 = We All Die Young* | extra4 = Steel Dragon | note4 = Miljenko Matijevic, Kenny Kanowski | length4 = 4:01 | title5 = Blood Pollution | extra5 = Steel Dragon | note5 = Twiggy Ramirez | length5 = 3:59 | title6 = Livin' on a Prayer* | extra6 = Bon Jovi | note6 = Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Desmond Child | length6 = 4:08 | title7 = Stand Up | extra7 = Steel Dragon | note7 = Sammy Hagar | length7 = 4:18 | title8 = Stranglehold | extra8 = Ted Nugent | note8 = Ted Nugent | length8 = 8:23 | title9 = Wasted Generation | extra9 = Steel Dragon | note9 = Desmond Child, A. Allen (A. Jay Popoff), J. Allen (Jeremy Popoff) | length9 = 2:54 | title10 = Lick It Up | extra10 = Kiss | note10 = Paul Stanley, Vinnie Vincent | length10 = 3:56 | title11 = Long Live Rock 'n' Roll | extra11 = Steel Dragon | note11 = Ronnie James Dio, Ritchie Blackmore | length11 = 3:27 | title12 = Devil Inside* | extra12 = INXS | note12 = Andrew Farriss, Michael Hutchence | length12 = 5:13 | title13 = Colorful | extra13 = The Verve Pipe | note13 = Brian Vander Ark | length13 = 4:25 | title14 = Gotta Have It | extra14 = Trevor Rabin | title15 = | length15 = | title16 = | length16 = | title17 = | length17 = | note14 = Trevor Rabin | length14 = 2:57 }}
Partial list of songs that were featured in the movie but did not appear on the soundtrack CD: {{Div col}} * AC/DC – "Are You Ready"* * Culture Club – "Karma Chameleon" * Def Leppard – "Let's Get Rocked"* * Def Leppard – "Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)" * Foghat – "Chateau Lafitte '59 Boogie" * Frankie Goes to Hollywood – "Relax" * Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch – "Good Vibrations" * Ralph Saenz, Peter Beckett, and Steve Plunkett – "California Girls" (The Beach Boys cover) * Talking Heads – "Once in a Lifetime" * Steel Dragon – "Reckless" (Phoenix Down cover) * Jennifer Aniston - Believe in Me * Trevor Rabin - Batman Theme * Steel Dragon - Crown of Falsehood (written by Zakk Wylde) * Pat King & Brian Grant - Sheedy's {{Div col end}}
=== Year-end charts === {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |+Year-end chart performance for ''Rock Star'' ! scope="col"| Chart (2002) ! scope="col"| Position |- !scope="row"|Canadian Metal Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)<ref>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040812035533/http://www.jamshowbiz.com/JamMusicCharts/2002_metal.html|archivedate=August 12, 2004|url=http://www.jamshowbiz.com/JamMusicCharts/2002_metal.html|title=Top 100 Metal Albums of 2002|website=Jam!|accessdate=March 23, 2022}}</ref> | 63 |}
==Home media== The film was released on DVD and VHS on January 22, 2002, by Warner Home Video.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hive4media.com/news/html/product_article.cfm?article_id=1973|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011127031139/http://www.hive4media.com/news/html/product_article.cfm?article_id=1973|title=Warner Home Video's 'Rock Star' Bows on VHS and DVD Jan. 22|website=hive4media.com|archive-date=November 27, 2001|date=October 22, 2001|access-date=September 8, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{wikiquote|Rock Star (film)}} * {{IMDb title|0202470}} * {{mojo title|rockstar|Rock Star}}
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