Chlöe Bailey will star in an upcoming movie adaptation of playwright Conor McPherson’s Girl From The North Country musical, which relies on the songs of Bob Dylan.
As Variety stories, Bailey – one half of R&B duo Chloe x Halle – will lead the forged together with Olivia Colman and Woody Harrelson. McPherson will write and direct the movie, which is being produced by Blueprint Pictures. A launch date has not but been set for the movie.
The unique Girl From The North Country musical premiered in London in 2017. Namerd after Dylan’s 1963 track of the identical identify, the musical is about throughout in 1934 through the Great Depression, and centres across the homeowners and travellers at a guesthouse in Duluth, Minnesota, as their lives intersect. In the movie adaptation, Bailey will play Marianne, the adopted daughter of proprietor Nick Laine (Harrelson) and his spouse Elizabeth (Colman).
The musical makes use of 19 songs from all through Dylan’s catalogue, together with ‘Slow Train’, ‘I Want You’, ‘Like A Rolling Stone’, ‘Hurricane’ and ‘Idiot Wind’. In a press release shared by Variety, Dylan mentioned that being related to McPherson was “one of the highlights of my professional life”.
He continued: “It goes without saying the man is a genius for putting this thing together and I’m thrilled to be a part of the experience. My songs couldn’t be in better hands. The play had me crying at the end. I can’t even say why. When the curtain came down, I was stunned. I really was.”
McPherson, in his personal assertion, mentioned it was a “huge privilege” to have Dylan’s belief to create a narrative from his songs. “Working with this incredible cast to bring these characters to life is almost beyond imagining.”
After its London manufacturing in 2017, Girl From The North Country went on to have off-Broadway, Toronto, Broadway and Australian runs. Its Broadway manufacturing acquired a slew of Tony Award nominations final 12 months, profitable Best Orchestration.
“To be [a part] of a tony award winning musical adaptation, with this stunning cast, is exciting and surreal,” Bailey wrote on Twitter when saying her casting within the upcoming movie. The singer and actress’ different current movie credit embrace final 12 months’s Jane together with the upcoming horror thriller The Georgetown Project.
to be aside of a tony award profitable musical adaptation, with this beautiful forged, is thrilling and surreal… ✨✨ https://t.co/ILScWolivq
— Chlöe (@ChloeBailey) February 6, 2023
Bailey’s sister and bandmate Halle has additionally been concerned with a number of movie initiatives of late. This 12 months, she is set to star as Ariel in Disney‘s live-action remake of The Little Mermaid, in addition to younger Nettie Harris in a movie adaptation of The Color Purple. Both are at present in post-production.
Following a string of standalone tracks all through 2022, Chloë Bailey’s debut solo studio album ‘In Pieces’ is about to reach subsequent month. It’s been previewed with one single up to now, January’s ‘Pray It Away’.