The family to the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Roy Orbison -Annän to hits like “Oh, Pretty Woman”, “Crying” based on the singer’s life and career.
Tentatively with the title “You got it”, after Orbison’s hit single from 1988, the film will be “a romance more than a traditional biopic”, according to the announcement, focusing on Orbison’s relationship with his wife Barbara, who became his boss and played A key role in his comeback, which took place over the years just before his death at just 52 December 1988. Barbara Orbison died 2011.
Denis O’Sullivan (“Bohemian Rhapsody”) and Jeff Kallighi (“I want to dance with someone”) will produce for mandatory images. Alex Orbison, Roy Orbison Jr. And Wesley Orbison will produce through their production company Roy’s Boys, with Joshua Mosshart. Also serving as executive producers are Steven Garcia, Ori Allon, Janice Beard, Tanner Beard, Lexie Beard and Dennis Casali.
Orbison’s sons said in a joint statement: “The Orbisons are excited to find the perfect partners in mandatory images for Roy Orbison Biopic. Denis and Jeff’s vision for this journey through Roy’s life is incredible. “
Orbison was, of course, one of rock music’s legendary figures, with a deep, majestic voice and the 1960s hits such as “Oh, Pretty Woman”, “Crying”, “Only the Lonely”, “Blue Bayou”, “Dream Baby”, “,” “,” “,” ” It’s over “and” in dreams. “But his life was first struck by the tragedy in 1966, when his wife Claudette was killed in a motorcycle accident, and again two years later when his two oldest sons died as his home outside Nashville burned down. As he continued Working and married Barbara in 1969 lost his career speed in the 1970s.
In the following decade, however, his hits began to be covered by everyone from Don Mclean (who got a hit in 1980 with “Crying”) to Van Halen (“Oh, Pretty Woman”), and he even won his first Grammy 1981 for his Duet with Emmylou Harris on “That Lovin ‘You Feel Again.” In 1986, his hit “In Dream’s” appearance was presented in David Lynch’s film “Blue Velvet”, and he and Barbara moved to Malibu, where he fell in with local luminaires such as Bob Dylan (which he first met in the early ’60s), Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne, and the four united with George Harrison to form The Travelling Wilburys, a Kvasi-SuperGroup whose light but memorable songs led to their self-titled hitalbum in 1988.
At about the same time, he was introduced into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by the long fan Bruce Springsteen, who in his speech said that in writing his breakthrough here “Born to run”, “I wanted a record with words like Bob Dylan it sounded like Phil Spector – but most of all, I wanted to sing like Roy Orbison. Now everyone knows that no one sings like Roy Orbison. Orbison ended his comeback -Soloalbum, “Mystery girl”, in November 1988 but suddenly died of a heart attack.
In a collective quote, convincing pictures said: “Roy Orbison is an individual talent that has a special place in our hearts, both as a favorite singer for ourselves and our loved ones, and also as a symbol of the incredible strength and resilience of human Spirit. It has been an honor to get to know Wesley, Roy Jr. and Alex and their families, and we believe that this unique love story between Roy and Barbara – rich with humor, excitement and emotions, everything is accentuated by these incredible songs – will reach the ceiling beam as One of Roy’s impossible notes. “
Rapped by Jay Cohen on Gersh and Evan Krauss at Eisner LLP.
