Clive Davis confirmed the long-rumored casting of Meryl Streep in the Joni Mitchell biopic during the record exec’s pre-Grammy bash Saturday in Los Angeles. During the annual party held at the Beverly Hilton, Davis was introducing some of the A-listers in attendance and landed on Mitchell, who he said would be portrayed by Streep in Cameron Crowe’s long-in-the-works biopic. When reached for comment, Crowe referred Rolling Stone to Davis’ announcement. Crowe, who developed a long friendship with Mitchell after interviewing the singer for Rolling Stone in 1979, has been developing the Joni biopic for the past half-decade, as he revealed in an October 2025 interview on The Late Show. It’s a movie that will be not from a distance… This is from her perspective, her life, looking out,” Crowe said.