The Bee Gees are nonetheless set to obtain the biopic remedy, with Ridley Scott in negotiations with Paramount Pictures to direct the movie, Deadline experiences.
The yet-untitled venture, which has been in the works since 2019, has already cycled by way of two different potential administrators, with Kenneth Branagh initially signing on and later being changed by John Carney.
Barry Gibb, the group’s lone surviving brother, will government produce the movie. The studio reportedly despatched Scott a draft of the film after he dazzled executives with early footage from his sequel to 2000’s historic epic Gladiator, on which he not too long ago wrapped manufacturing.
Scott and the Bee Gees have an extended historical past. The band’s longtime supervisor Robert Stigwood — who shepherded the group by way of an early-’70s stoop and towards the career-rejuvenating Saturday Night Fever movie and soundtrack — had organized for Scott to direct the medieval movie Castle Accident, starring Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb. The movie by no means materialized and Scott as an alternative made his directorial debut with 1977’s The Duellists, however he nonetheless wished to work on a movie involving the Bee Gees in some capability.
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The Bee Gees’ Massive, Up-and-Down Career
The Bee Gees’ illustrious profession has no scarcity of dizzying highs and miserable lows match for the large display screen. The Gibbs fashioned the group in 1958 and launched their first album, The Bee Gees Sing and Play 14 Barry Gibb Songs, in 1965. Their third album and worldwide debut, Bee Gees’ 1st, arrived two years later and reached the Top 10 in the United States and United Kingdom, turning the group into stars.
A sequence of smash hits adopted over the subsequent a number of years, however the Bee Gees briefly broke up in 1969. They reunited the next yr, however by 1973 their profession was floundering. The group pivoted to disco and contributed a number of songs to 1977’s Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. Three of them — “How Deep Is Your Love,” “Stayin’ Alive” and “Night Fever” — topped the Billboard Hot 100, and Saturday Night Fever bought greater than 40 million copies worldwide, turning the Bee Gees into disco’s poster kids.
The following yr, the group appeared in the star-studded Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band movie, which grew to become a large essential and business flop. Yet their subsequent album, 1979’s Spirits Having Flown, yielded three extra U.S. No. 1 hits. As the disco backlash mounted, the band’s profile shrank, however with greater than 220 million information bought worldwide, they continue to be one of many bestselling acts of all time. Maurice Gibb died in 2003, and Robin died in 2012.
Bee Gees Albums Ranked
They began out at Beatles copies, transitioned to disco pioneers and by no means calmed their stressed spirits.
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