Culture Club is coming to the big screen, as MGM is set to produce a feature musical biopic about the life of singer-songwriter Boy George, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
Sacha Gervasi, the director of “Anvil: The Story of Anvil” and “My Dinner With Herve” will write and direct the film based on George’s life. Kevin King Templeton and Paul Kemsley will produce, and George and Jessica de Rothschild will executive produce.
The untitled film will chart Boy George’s childhood in a working class Irish family through his rise to stardom along with Culture Club in the 1980s.
Hollywood is going all in on music biopics following the massive success of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which won an Oscar for Best Actor for Rami Malek in his portrayal of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, as well as the...
Sacha Gervasi, the director of “Anvil: The Story of Anvil” and “My Dinner With Herve” will write and direct the film based on George’s life. Kevin King Templeton and Paul Kemsley will produce, and George and Jessica de Rothschild will executive produce.
The untitled film will chart Boy George’s childhood in a working class Irish family through his rise to stardom along with Culture Club in the 1980s.
Hollywood is going all in on music biopics following the massive success of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which won an Oscar for Best Actor for Rami Malek in his portrayal of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, as well as the...
- 5/29/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
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