Pete Davidson to Star as Joey Ramone in Netflix Biopic I Slept With Joey Ramone. The biopic about the Ramones frontman, born Jeffrey Ross Hyman, is based off the 2010 memoir of the same name, written by Ramone's brother, Mickey Leigh, and music journalist Legs McNeil. The book offers a glimpse into the private life and career of the disaffected outcast-turned-counterculture icon. Netflix will develop and produce I Slept With Joey Ramone in partnership with STXfilm. Davidson wrote the film treatment with his frequent collaborator Jason Orley. The Saturday Night Live cast member previously worked with Orley on the 2019 comedy Big Time Adolescence and his 2020 stand-up special,