Posted on 03/12/2021 4:55:57 PM PST by nickcarraway
The upcoming Bee Gees biopic is set to be directed by award-winning actor and writer Kenneth Branagh, industry publication Deadline reported.
The project took shape in 2019 when Graham King, who produced the award-winning Queen movie Bohemian Rhapsody, arranged a deal with the Gibb family, securing the services of surviving band member Barry Gibb as executive producer. Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment became a 25 percent partner and the movie house Sister – established by veterans Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone – were signed up, too.
Deadline noted that Gibb was “very involved in the narrative,” which is being written by Ben Elton. He’s best known for the Blackadder historical sitcom franchise in the U.K.; he's also written the jukebox musicals We Will Rock You and Tonight’s the Night, based on the catalogs of Queen and Rod Stewart, respectively. He also wrote All Is True, the 2018 William Shakespeare biopic that Branagh directed and starred in.
Gibb was involved in the recent well-received Bee Gees documentary How Can You Mend a Broken Heart – although he admitted he didn’t plan to watch the entire production since it covered the deaths of his bandmate brothers. “I can’t handle watching the loss of my family, I just can’t handle it,” he told CBS Sunday Morning in February. “Who would? I think it’s perfectly normal to not want to see how each brother was lost, you know? And I don’t want to address it. I’m past it.”
He added that, contrary to rumors, he didn't suffer a breakdown after the loss of his last brother, Robin, in 2015. But, he sad, "we've never not been together. The first year after … that was the most difficult period for me. I just didn't know where to go. I didn't know what to do. And I didn't know how to be perceived. I didn't know how to perceive other people's opinions. So basically, I've been in lockdown for years now!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk9bmuncB4Q. Some douchebag Bee Gees song on Youtube
That’s because the New ENGLAND patriots are there. Plus the taxes are cheaper than Britain...somehow!
The last true patriot is in Tampa Bay.
I came of age musically in the 80’s and loved classic rock from the 70’s, so naturally I hated the Bee Gees. But I’ve since become a big fan. I really like Barry Gibb as well, he seems like a class act. Married almost 50 years to the same woman.
Did anyone actually like them?
I still do, but I watched their documentary when stuck with family over Christmas. They have an interesting family story.
The Bee Gees had monster hits and a massive catalog . . People have forgotten songs like this...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DFMQTKnTMAA
You can have the rest of their material.
Bohemian Rhapsody stunk. That’s my opinion and I’m sticking to it.
I haven’t.
Millions obviously.
Yeah, you missed about 20 good to great songs. And Barry wrote hits that you would easily recognize for other artists as well. There is nothing worse than an opinion based on ignorance. If you don’t know, don’t say.
No matter what anyone thinks of the Bee Gees music, they really knew how to put a song together. Every one of their tunes was finely crafted if you ask me. They all had a gift and that’s very rare. I actually come from a musical family too.
Knowing nothing about the song, the first time I heard Kenny Rogers sing Eyes that See in the Dark, I turned to my wife and said that has be a Barry Gibb song.
Ditto...
“Did anyone actually like them?”
Of course not. And everybody hated Barry Manilow. They only sold a kabillion records and their songs are played on the 70s radio stations non-stop.
My problem with the film was that it was almost entirely fiction and the surviving members of Queen wanted it this way.
There is chick music, guy music and something in between.
Very talented family. I am more in like with their sixties songs.
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