Following the celebrated documentary “The Sound of My Voice,” ‘70s singer-songwriter Linda Ronstadt is having a second and getting her due. Earlier within the week, it was introduced that Selena Gomez would painting the singer in an upcoming biopic, and now a director has been introduced. Rumors swirled late within the week that David O. Russell could be directing the biopic, and now Variety and quite a few trades have confirmed the information.
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The pop singer and “Only Murders in the Building” star teased her function earlier within the week by posting an image of Ronstadt’s 2013 memoir “Simple Dreams” on her Instagram story. Shortly after that, Gomez’s lead function was confirmed.
The untitled music biopic is at present in pre-production, and producers on the venture embody Ronstadt’s supervisor, John Boylan, and James Keach, who produced the aforementioned 2019 doc “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice.” Ronstadt and Gomez are each of Mexican descent.
O. Russell can be working on “Super Toys,” with Keke Palmer and Sacha Baron Cohen hooked up to star, but it surely appears like this Ronstadt movie has momentum and can enter manufacturing later this yr. The filmmaker has 5 Oscar nominations, together with three Best Directing noms for “The Fighter” (2011), “Silver Linings Playbook,” (2013), and “American Hustle” (2015).
He is, nevertheless, coming off arguably the most important bomb of his profession, the star-studded “Amsterdam” from 2022, which reportedly misplaced the studio round $100 million after it largely flopped on the field workplace and was rejected by critics. Still, the filmmaker has a fantastic facility for music and must be greater than at dwelling with the subject material.
Ronstadt has received 11 Grammys in her lifetime and is thought for rock and roll and nation hits, many coming from Nineteen Seventies albums like Heart Like A Wheel and Simple Dreams.