Ridley Scott To Direct Paramount’s Bee Gees Movie From GK FIlms
16.02.2024 - 00:03
/ deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: With their Bob Marley movie, One Love, opening this weekend, Paramount Pictures is now moving fast on another high profile biopic on popular music group, looking to have found an A-list director to lead the project. While a deal isn’t done, sources tell Deadline that Ridley Scott is in negotiations to direct the untitled Bee Gees movie for Paramount. Scott will produce alongside producing partner Michael Pruss of Scott Free, Graham King through his GK Films banner and Stacey Snider.
Paramount Pictures is distributing the film worldwide with Amblin and SISTER having the right to co-finance. Barry Gibb is executive producing. John Logan wrote the script.
While this isn’t the typical film Scott is known for, several factors came into play that led to the studio pursuing him and the Oscar-nominated director agreeing to come on board. First, Scott recently wrapped production on his highly-anticipated sequel to his smash hit Gladiator and according to sources, early footage has blown execs away. Scott is known for finding his follow-up projects quickly and once production wrapped last month, the studio was quick to get the latest draft of the film in front of film before he found that next film.
As for Scott, the director has a long standing link to the legendary group going all the way back to when he was trying to launch his directing career and that connection is the group’s longtime manager at the time, Robert Stigwood. The music mogul had been managing the group since the sixties and played a big part with their resurgence in the 70s during the Disco while at the same time getting into the movie producing business. Stigwood would put Scott on a medieval film Castle Accident that would star the three
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