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A Bee Gees biopic featuring their original music on the cards
Actor and activist Jane Fonda was arrested once again — fourth Friday in a row — for protesting politicians’ failure to address climate change.
“This time, I may be detained overnight and that’s fine for one night, big deal!” Fonda joked to reporters, noting that this was not her first arrest as police put plastic wire around her wrists.
Along with several dozen activists including actors Rosanna Arquette and Catherine Keener, Fonda sat chanting on the floor of a Senate building, where no demonstrations are allowed.
A pacifist and feminist activist since the 1970s, Fonda, who still works full-time at almost 82, said she was drawn to the movement by Swedish teenager and climate advocate Greta Thunberg.
“There are many ways to fight. But I’m inspired by Greta Thunberg and the young student strikers all over the world. I’m a celebrity. So this is a way to use my [stardom] to get the message out that we face a crisis that could determine whether or not our children and grandchildren have a future that’s even habitable,” she said.
She says she is ready to be arrested “again and again” at least until mid-January. After that, she has to work on the next season of her web series Grace and Frankie.
AFP
Graham King, the producer of Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) — the hit movie about the life of Freddie Mercury and his band Queen, is set to take on another set of musical icons, the Bee Gees.
The biopic has not yet been written or cast, reports the theguardian.com.
The rights to the Bee Gees songs have been purchased, and are, therefore, expected be used in the movie. This is unlike other musicians’ biopics, including upcoming Bowie movie Stardust and Hendrix biopic Jimi: All Is By My Side, which were forced to tell their stories without the music of their main characters.
The Bee Gees story has the requisite ups and downs: The three eldest Gibb brothers hustled up a career first in Australia, and then in the UK via Beatles manager, Brian
Epstein, before breaking through in the US in the late 1960s.
Their memorable songs include Stayin’ Alive, Night
Fever, More Than A Woman, and How Deep Is Your Love — all of which soundtracked the 1977 smash-hit film Saturday Night Fever. These are hits that define the disco era. They had six successive No. 1 singles in the US in less than two years.