*The Aretha Franklin’s biopic is a go, even after the diva demanded her cast be just right.
She’s a vocal woman and obviously gets what she wants in life.
The movie stopped production a few months back (before it even got started), but now it’s back on course to be completed by next year.
According to the Queen of Soul, Taylor Hackford is leading the project as director.
“Oh, yeah. I’m in superb hands with Taylor Hackford. We are fine-tuning the treatment now. The treatment has four acts. He has finished all four,” Franklin told Glamour. “We’re now reworking some of it where it needs work: ‘A little more drama, tell me something else, what else happened here? We need a little more of this, a little more of that.’”
As far as getting her dream cast, Aretha doesn’t have all the say. The director is taking her thoughts into consideration, as if he had a choice, and considering the best men and women for each part.
But as far as the star role, who will it be?
“We have Jennifer Hudson, we have Halle Berry and Audra McDonald. That’s the last three,” says Franklin. “I went to see Audra in Porgy and Bess, and I was very impressed with her dramatic ability. She was terrific.”
Halle Berry? Seriously?
We’ll see what the results will be when the movie actually begins production.
Aretha was fine until she started eating all that fried chicken and cake. Just terrible. Glad she’s bouncing back.
well let’s not forget the fact that while she was eating that cake and chicken, she dropped two-different-baby-daddy kids before she was 20! Even when she was skinny, her face had that “stuffed-with-taters” mouth. Same with Phylicia Rashad, (love her but, she gots the tater mouth too.
This role should be given to Audra or Jennifer. Halls already stated that she didn’t want the role……so Aretha please give up that thought.
I get the feeling Areatha may be a bit color struck. Between this ridiculous idea of HB playing and the way she once gushed over Terrence Howard…she’s definitely got a thing for mulattos.
I sure hope the movie is better than her biography. Aretha don’t want to give up the down and dirty truth. Her autobiography was boring.
I agree with diva 007, Jennifer or Audra should play Aretha, not Halle. Even with that side-by-side pics of herself (when she was young) with Halle, it’s a bit of a stretch. All I can say is the “Queen” is a mess. She didn’t come right out and say his name, but on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, she practically admitted she had a fling with Tavis Smiley once. She’s 70, and Tavis is in his late 40′s! I don’t know, but all I can say is she’s a mess.
Aretha Franklin & Tavis Smiley????? ewwwwwwww say its not true(((throwing-up))))!!!
The only similarity I see here is a short haircut.