The Runaways’ reunion had been like a distant dream for fans since members Joan Jett, Lita Ford, and Cherie Currie have been involved in their own feuds. Currie and Ford had both accused Jett of sabotaging and getting in the way of a reunion over the years, though it seems that Ford almost managed to revive the band with a witty plan.

Cherie Currie told all about this plan in 2000 while chatting with Backfire magazine, recalling how Lita was determined to have the Runaways get together:

“Lita Ford approached us about two and a half years ago [around 1998] – had us all write letters to Joan, begging her. Lita staged this whole thing. Joan all of a sudden goes, ‘Okay, let’s do this.’ So we had like a million-dollar record deal right then.”

However, things didn’t go the way as Ford decided to sink her own plan:

“We were starting to think about the tour when we did a conference call between me and Sandy and Lita and Joan and Kenny Laguna [Joan’s musical partner]. Lita didn’t last three minutes on the phone. Joan had just flown in from Hong Kong; she was exhausted. And Joan talks like, [deadpan sounding] ‘Yeah…’ Joan’s very Zen.”

Cherie continued by telling how Lita was furious with Jett’s tone:

“And Lita gets so pissed off – she goes, ‘I want you to be doing f*ckin’ double backflips over this. I want you excited.’ And Joan said, ‘Hey, Lita, man, you know, chill out. I’m tired, I just got off a plane after fifteen hours…’ And Lita says, ‘Sorry – I can’t do this. I’m out.’ It was like, ‘Wait wait wait, Lita! Lita, wait.’ She goes, ‘No, sorry, f*ck all you guys, forget it,’ and she hangs up the phone.”

However, after that ‘messy’ breakup, Currie explained how the band was offered a good amount of money to tour for forty dates. Still, it seemed that Ford wasn’t interested in touring or getting together with the Runaways, as Cherrie said:

“We were offered a substantial amount of money to tour two months ago, 40 dates. Joan is totally into it, we’re all into it. And Lita freaks out again and says, ‘You know what? I don’t need the money. I’m moving into my two-million-dollar house in the Caribbean – have a nice life, everyone. Good-bye.’ And it was just like, ‘What the hell?'”

As the contract required four original members to tour together, the Runaways couldn’t make a comeback in 2000, for a forty-dated tour. One could say things haven’t gotten better since, as Cherrie herself had recently accused Jett of ‘sabotaging‘ her album, while Ford seemed determined not to make up with Joan.

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The Runaways has been a part of music history since its formation in the 1970s and left a legacy behind as an all-female rock act. The band’s journey to fame was brought to the big screen in the 2010 biographical drama of the same name.

In the film, Kristen Stewart portrayed the band’s guitarist Joan Jett. Jett shared her thoughts about Stewart’s performance in a 2010 conversation with Interview magazine, saying:

“Well, I found Kristen to be through and through, totally professional and just great to be around. I found us to be really, scarily similar, just in our physicality, the way we move through space. The first time we met was a little over a year ago, New Year’s Eve. She came to see us do a concert.”

She continued, giving further details of their first meeting:

“We hung out for the whole day, and I just dumped on her about everything I could think about The Runaways — I mean, the good, the bad, and the ugly. I told her all that stuff and how much it meant to me… [S]he is so authentic. The thing that came through to me was that it was important to her to capture it. She really wanted to nail it.”

Recalling how Stewart worked for her role, Joan added:

“When we were together prior to the start of filming, she was staring at me the whole time. And I was fine with it because I knew she was watching my posture, my mannerisms, everything I did, the way I hold my hands, just everything. And she really soaked it in.”

Jett also talked about their days on set, explaining:

“When we were hanging out together on set, it was like I had a mirror image. Even just sitting around, we’d do the same thing at the same time. It was just great — and it wasn’t creepy. It was wonderfully special.”

The film, written and directed by Floria Sigismondi and featuring Joan as the executive producer, hit theaters on March 19, 2010. Besides Stewart, Dakota Fanning starred as Cherie Currie and Michael Shannon as Kim Fowley.

You can see the trailer below.

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