Closed Doors

Jim Morrison fans shouldn’t hold their breath waiting for those two film projects on the legend of the late lead singer of the Doors.

“Riders on the Storm,” the Doors bio-pic at Imagine Films, is strike-stalled at the development stage. And “Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess,” at Gene Kirkwood and John Hyde’s Cinecorp Prods., won’t move ahead until next March, when the Danny Sugerman book on which it’s based is published.

“Our project is completely different (from Imagine’s),” Kirkwood told us. “It’s not a picture about the Doors. It’s the story of a teen-ager and a rock star--what Morrison meant to this kid.”

“Wonderland” is the novelized personal memoir written by Sugerman, who became a gofer for the Doors at 13 and worked with the group for several years. (Sugerman also wrote the screenplay).

A source on “Riders” tells us that casting Morrison will be crucial: “We need someone who’s exceptionally pretty--and who can really act.”