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‘Runaways’ “Cherry Bomb” Sung By Dakota Fanning Leaked, Plus New Poster & Trailer

So we’ve already revealed the soundtrack details to “The Runaways” and the fact that Dakota Fanning herself (who plays lead singer Cherie Currie), sings four tracks on the CD (and presumably in the movie as well), including, “Cherry Bomb,” “California Paradise” plus “Queens of Noise” and “Dead End Justice.” Kristen Stewart joins her on the tracks, as she obviously plays Joan Jett in the picture.

And now Vulture have dug up a “Cherry Bomb” leak on YouTube. They call it a butchering, but it honestly doesn’t sound terrible per se and to be completely honest, we’ve heard worse. Ok, Fanning sounds a little weird in the verses when she says kewl and bloooose (blues), but it really could have been far more disastrous.

It sounds like you might expect: a modern, but pretty decent approximation/ facsimile of the original (which you can hear here).

Put it this way, we’re generally predisposed to being easily embarrassed by these kinds of re-dos, but this version only makes us slightly cringe rather than jump overboard or scream in outrage. We mean, they’re teenage actors; they did a decent job all things considered. And it’s not like the original Runaways were the most super talented bunch of musicians in the first place (but sure, they had attitude and spunk in spades).

The film also stars Scout Taylor-Compton as Lita Ford, Stella Maeve as Sandy West, Alia Shawkat as a fictionalized composite of the band’s many bass players named Robin and Michael Shannon as the band’s exploitative manager, Kim Fowley.
Collider also has the new poster (guess the Cherry one with the fuse was too vague for some audiences) and some new images, which you can see here. “The Runaways,” will open on March 19th in semi-limited release (220 screens in ten cities) then go wider April 9, when it will be upped to another 1000 screens. Here’s the newest trailer.

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