Paramount Footage has discovered a brand new director for its Bee Gees biopic, enlisting John Carney following Kenneth Branagh’s departure from the undertaking, Deadline studies.
The yet-untitled biopic took form in 2019 when producer Graham King (who helmed 2018’s award-winning Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody) and Paramount negotiated a cope with the Gibb household, bringing surviving band member Barry Gibb onboard as govt producer. Paramount initially tapped Branagh — whose directorial credit embrace 1996’s Hamlet, 2011’s Thor and 2015’s Cinderella — to direct the movie, however he left the undertaking late final yr attributable to scheduling conflicts, together with the awards marketing campaign for Belfast, which gained Finest Authentic Screenplay ultimately weekend’s Academy Awards.
Carney is not any stranger to music-related movies, having written and directed the 2007 musical drama As soon as and the 2016 musical dramedy Sing Road. The previous gained an Academy Award for Finest Authentic Music, and the latter obtained a Golden Globe nomination for Finest Movement Image – Musical or Comedy. The Bee Gees movie will mark Carney’s first musical biopic, and he’ll work alongside scriptwriter John Logan.
After launching as a Beatlesque pop group within the mid-’60s, Bee Gees reinvented themselves as disco kings within the late ’70s. The trio featured prominently on 1977’s Saturday Night time Fever soundtrack, which offered 16 million copies within the U.S. and topped the Billboard 200 for twenty-four consecutive weeks.
Barry Gibb is the lone surviving member of Bee Gees, following the deaths of dual brothers Maurice (2003) and Robin (2012). Their youthful brother, Andy, who had a profitable solo profession, died in 1988.
Gibb beforehand participated within the 2020 HBO documentary The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Damaged Coronary heart, which obtained six Emmy nominations and gained the award for Excellent Sound Modifying for a Nonfiction or Actuality Program (Single or Multi-Digital camera).
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