Post by jazzhead on Jul 21, 2021 18:23:57 GMT
Well, there's one thing we know! This film will have an awesome soundtrack. Unless they [expletive] that up!
Just read this on Rolling Stone:
"Yasiin Bey to Play Jazz Legend Thelonious Monk in New Biopic
Revolutionary musician to be subject of new film, with production set to begin next summer
Years ago, screenwriter-producer Peter Lord Moreland watched Straight No Chaser, the landmark 1988 documentary on bebop pianist-composer Thelonious Monk. Thus began a near-obsessive fascination with the jazz legend that “was already triggered by one of my favorite jazz ballads of all time: ‘Round Midnight.’”
As his career progressed, Lord Moreland began researching the musician and started on a working script to document his life and career. “My entire life, I have been an artist, a person, and a thinker who seems to have an alternative view of creating, hearing, and seeing the world,” he tells Rolling Stone. “There’s no greater personification of that than Thelonious.”
Now, Jupiter Rising Film, the production company headed by Lord Moreland and Alberto Marzan, are set to begin production next summer on Thelonious, a biopic starring Yasiin Bey in the title role. The film, the producers note, will center around “his struggles for musical success, mental illness, and the spiritual love triangle between his wife, Nellie, and one of the world’s richest women, Nica Rothschild.”"
More info here:
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/yasiin-bey-thelonious-monk-biopic-1199616/
Just read this on Rolling Stone:
"Yasiin Bey to Play Jazz Legend Thelonious Monk in New Biopic
Revolutionary musician to be subject of new film, with production set to begin next summer
Years ago, screenwriter-producer Peter Lord Moreland watched Straight No Chaser, the landmark 1988 documentary on bebop pianist-composer Thelonious Monk. Thus began a near-obsessive fascination with the jazz legend that “was already triggered by one of my favorite jazz ballads of all time: ‘Round Midnight.’”
As his career progressed, Lord Moreland began researching the musician and started on a working script to document his life and career. “My entire life, I have been an artist, a person, and a thinker who seems to have an alternative view of creating, hearing, and seeing the world,” he tells Rolling Stone. “There’s no greater personification of that than Thelonious.”
Now, Jupiter Rising Film, the production company headed by Lord Moreland and Alberto Marzan, are set to begin production next summer on Thelonious, a biopic starring Yasiin Bey in the title role. The film, the producers note, will center around “his struggles for musical success, mental illness, and the spiritual love triangle between his wife, Nellie, and one of the world’s richest women, Nica Rothschild.”"
More info here:
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/yasiin-bey-thelonious-monk-biopic-1199616/