Уитни Хьюстон. Потанцуйте со мной (I Wanna Dance With Somebody)

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Whitney Houston is the greatest singer of all time, so it's a privilege to be able to tell her story. I'm very lucky to have the support of Pat Houston and Anthony McCarten and Clive Davis to direct the film. It's amazing talking about her so much and it's just very important to all of us to kind of extend her legacy and to tell her story. It's the most exciting job I've ever been in a position to tell.

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Around six streamers and studios chased the Whitney Houston film project hard, with Sony prevailing.

Дата выхода — 24 ноября 2022

That Hashtag Show

Last week the studio put out the following casting call for the role of Whitney Houston, giving us a hint of how they’ll portray the singer in the film:

Mid 20s – mid 30s, African American, Female; Lanky, warmly brown-skinned from East Orange, New Jersey. In the 80s she spoke like a shy ingenue but, with stardom her delivery showed equal parts wit and grace — apparent whenever she took the stage to exercise supreme control of her audiences. Her taxing personal life grew part of her public persona. Yet, the vulnerability of that New Jersey teenager was always just below her haughty facade as she fought to remain one of the greatest recording artists of all time.”

Продюсер Клив Дэвис на подкасте Strictly Business

Clive Davis has never seen a documentary on Whitney Houston that captured the artist and the person he knew so well. So he set out more than a year go to produce a movie biopic of the chart-topping singer of such indelible 1980s and ’90s hits such as “Saving All My Love For You,” “So Emotional,” “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” and “I Will Always Love You.”

 

In the latest episode of Variety podcast “Strictly Business,” Davis details how he teamed with “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “The Two Popes” screenwriter Anthony McCarten to develop the script for the Houston biopic. The pair agreed to work together on their own in order to shop a completed script to the major studios and to raise their own financing. After fierce bidding, the Houston movie landed a distribution pact with Sony Pictures (the studio’s sibling music division owns Houston’s catalog) with director Stella Meghie on board as well.

 

“I didn’t pay a penny to him, and he didn’t pay a penny to me,” Davis says of his work with McCarten. The two hit it off right away, and Davis spent a year introducing him to key figures in Houston’s life. Davis vows that the movie will be a “no holds barred” portrait of the artist, who died tragically in February 2012 at the age of 48 after grappling with drug abuse. “I have a mission here,” Davis says. “I have a mission to make sure that for all time that the full picture of Whitney Houston is captured in a no-holds-barred film that is musically rich and shows her genius and more of her character than we have seen to date” in other projects.

 

The plan is to use Houston’s original recordings in the movie, meaning that the actor who lands the plum lead role does not need to have Whitney Houston-level pipes.

 

“There was a fierce competition for the movie,” Davis says. “I’m happy to say the reaction to the script was good. Almost every studio head called to tell me about their passion for the project. They know Whitney has been captured and the opportunity here is so special and unique.”

Моусес Ингрэм сыграет Робин Кроуфорд

"Мы были подругами и любовницами". Робин Кроуфорд рассказала об отношениях с Уитни Хьюстон

По словам руководителя TriStar Pictures Николь Браун, съемки стартуют в августе

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Стэнли Туччи сыграет продюсера Клива Дэвиса

Моусес Ингрэм сыграет Робин Кроуфорд

Нафиса Уильямс заменила Ингрэм в роли Кроуфорд

Также присоединились Кларк Питерс и Тамара Тюни, которые сыграют родителей Хьюстон

Небольшое видео со съемочной площадки

Клево. Массовка прикольная, стоят качаются

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it’s very digitally shot