‘Eleven’ Director John Carney to Direct Bee Gees Biopic for Paramount; To John Logan Pen Script

Special: After staging critically acclaimed original musicals such as song street AND One time, John Carney is now set to try his luck at a musical biography as he plans to shoot an eponymous Bee Gees movie for Paramount Pictures. The studio also hired John Logan to write the script.

GK Films co-produced with Graham King Amblyn, Elizabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snyder and sister of Jane Pheserstone. Barry Gibb starring in director Frank Marshall’s unforgettable HBO documentary .How can you fill a broken heart? As for the Gibb brothers, he’s very into film storytelling and will be an executive producer.

After the current director’s change, Paramount moved the image of the release schedule.

The Bee Gees have sold over 220 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling bands of all time. Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb grew in popularity after writing songs before they began performing folk and soft rock together in the late 1950s. ᲨSaturday night heat This boosted the record’s popularity and led to one of the best-selling albums, earning them five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year. While their growing success made them a world-famous, wealthy, and indelible part of the ’70s Zeitgeist, their status as a disco symbol abruptly lifted them when a backlash finally broke out in the polyester atmosphere.

When Maurice Gibby died suddenly at the age of 53 in January 2003, the remaining siblings dropped the band’s name after 45 years of work. They reformed in 2009, but Robin died three years later at the age of 62, enabling Barry Gibb to spread the band’s legacy.

GK Films is no stranger to the musical biography that shaped the Queen’s image Bohemian Rhapsody At the box office and before the Oscars. In recent years Paramount has done this genre of business with the biography of Elton John. rocket man And he is currently working on a painting of Bob Marley played by Kingsley Ben-Adir.

Kenneth Branagh was in direct contact, but withdrew from the project late last year due to other scheduling conflicts related to a time-consuming bounty campaign. BelfastThat earned him an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay on Sunday.

It will be the first musical property based on real musicians played by Carney, but the acclaimed director has made a career of award-winning original musicals. Revolutionary feature One time It won an Oscar for Best Song and adapted it for an eight-act stage. also directed start again AND Singh street.

He has spent the last two years developing and directing the series for Amazon Studios. modern love It was created and based on columns of the same name in the New York Times.

Logan, three-time Oscar nominee (Gladiator, Hugo, Airman), won a Tony Award for her work Red And he is currently in the Broadway musical. Moulin Rouge.

It is distinguished by Carney, WME and Logan by CAA.