Biopic News

While Sam Mendes is working on his four Beatles biopics, the BBC has announced it has started pre-production on a six-part drama series about the Beatles‘ early career in the 1960's. Titled Hamburg Days, the biopic is based on the autobiography by Beatles session musician Klaus Voormann. No word on casting at this stage.

Leslie Odom Jr. has acquired the screen rights to the Rolling Stone article “Dance With the Devil”, which detailed how a TV pilot called 'Poor Devil' led to a friendship between Sammy Davis Jr and Anton LaVey, founder and high priest of the Church of Satan. Odom previously played singer Sam Cooke in One Night in Miami. 

Intrinsic Value Films, responsible for the well-received sports biopic Queen of the Ring, is currently developing a biopic of Gene Wilder. The screenplay by Jeremy Roth traces the relationships that shaped Wilder’s career and his lifelong search for happiness. Wilder was previously portrayed by Tom Rooney in Gilda Radner: It's Always Something.