While attending the 55th annual Songwriters Hall of Fame on Thursday (June 11), Fogerty spoke to The Hollywood Reporter, revealing that a biopic charting his life was in the works, with the script currently being written.
“I’m really excited about it. That’s such an honour, to get a movie made about you,” he said. “I’m thrilled and happy that this is finally going to come out. I think they’re working on it. That’s about all I can say.”
When asked who he’d want to play him in a film about him, Fogerty quipped, “I used to joke, ‘Oh, Brad Pitt!’. The same night, the ‘Centerfield’ singer later spoke to Us Weekly about his dream casting, and said he’d pick: “Whoever that Bob Dylan guy was. That would be great.”
John Fogerty plays impassioned versions of three Creedence Clearwater Revival classics and two solo tracks in a new episode of NPR’s Tiny Desk earlier this year (Jan 2026) — and also retells, at length, the story of how “Proud Mary” came to be.
“This song was so much better than anything I’d ever done,” he says in the episode, after kicking off the set with that 1969 classic, backed by sons Shane and Tyler Fogerty. “And I was literally kind of dumbfounded and shocked that it had happened … I was sitting there all alone and I realized I’m the only person in the whole world that knows about this song and knows that it’s a great song. It was just the strangest feeling.”
He also shouts out the show’s host network, offering a subtle political message. “I do wanna say that I am an avid listener of NPR,” he says, just before playing “Long As I Can See the Light.” “I don’t wanna cause too much controversy, but especially in these times, you guys — just keep doing what you’re doing, please.”
Before concluding with “Have You Ever Seen the Rain,” Fogerty thanked his fans for years of devotion. “I’ve been very blessed in my life to have music as my vocation,” he says in the Tiny Desk episode. “I’ve also been very blessed to have my family around me, which is the greatest feeling in the world — to get up on a stage with my family every night and play. And the most wonderful thing that has occurred is all these fans, you guys, have come and seen me through the years, singing these songs … The fact that you embrace my songs has been a rainbow in my heart. This song has a rainbow in it.”
SET LIST
"Proud Mary"
"Change in the Weather"
"A Hundred and Ten in the Shade"
"Long As I Can See the Light"
"Have You Ever Seen the Rain"
MUSICIANS
John Fogerty: vocals, guitar, keys
Shane Fogerty: guitar, background vocals
Tyler Fogerty: guitar, background vocals
Jesse Noah Wilson: bass, background vocals
Doug Lamothe: keys
Rob Stone: saxophone, percussion, background vocals
Richard Millsap: drums, background vocals
TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Bobby Carter
Director/Editor: Maia Stern
Audio Technical Director: Josh Newell
Videographers: Maia Stern, Kara Frame, Joshua Bryant
Audio Engineer: Jay Czys
Production Assistant: Dhanika Pineda
Photographer: Zayrha Rodriguez
Series Editor: Lars Gotrich
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
Executive Director: Sonali Mehta
Series Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson, Robin Hilton
