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!"
Check out the VERY young Bee Gees:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeRAxUnLNb8
They started in the 1950’s as kids, mostly singing songs they wrote themselves.
I did...loved them.
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Travolta and Bee Gees owe each other a huge thanks that fate brought them together. It catapaulted all of them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVEqy6K18Yo
My all time fav Bee Gees song...”Words”
in HD...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SsNEHzADqA&ab_channel=CarlosPedro
Recently, I revisited ABBA under the headphones and thought the same thing. I was blown away at the mastery with which they could put hit songs together.
And if you are from that era..this video should make you laugh. The costumes..the dancing...the weird guy in the back..yeah you will know the one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl1LP81eSKY
btw, that is not the song that was used..but it could have been
Now that's a film that would have everything! Hit songs! Great clothes! Lots of sex and lots of drugs and then more sex, and even more drugs! And lots of fighting, more drugs, more sex, and more great songs!
Would definitely have to be 'R'-rated though.
Blackadder is hilarious. Their version of Scrooge is the best of all time.
Yup, I hear ya’. As a lifetime rocker I always turned my nose up at bands like Abba, Bread, Bee Gees, Carpenter’s, just to name a few. Once I grew older and listened with a more unbiased ear, I realize I was wrong and they were just fine for their time. Even great in many cases.
Really???
OK I kinda get disco on the level that it promoted dance, but Really??
I might watch that. I like a lot of what they did, but not all of it. They certainly had a remarkable career and made a huge impact on music. I watched a documentary on them a while back and was astounded at the number of songs Barry Gibb has written. I knew the songs but I didn’t know he had written them. I have to respect that talent. I never got into disco, but I have to respect how they reinvented themselves during that era. A lot of the disco tunes worth listening to came from them.
I did. Still do. Always will.
Lots of folks loved them, a lot! But you knew that.
“ During a nine-month period beginning in the Christmas season of 1977, seven songs written by the brothers held the No. 1 position on the US charts for 27 of 37 consecutive weeks: three of their own releases, two for brother Andy Gibb, the Yvonne Elliman single, and “Grease”, performed by Frankie Valli.”
Their early (pop) stuff was quite good. The disco...meh.
Absolutely.
No. But they sold a bazillion records and seemed to be on every radio station in the late 70s.
I have recently become quite a Bee Gees fan after discovering the videos from when they were kids. They wrote their own music and wrote hits you would know from other singers. They had hits that I thought were from other bands. They are not a disco band, despite the association with Saturday Night Fever.
Their story is super interesting, and a movie could be fantastic.
I want to beat that aussie poof and take his Indians chief wahoo hat away, curl down the bill and pitch, like a Cleveland rocker..
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