A film on the life of Whitney Houston is in preparation, with the director Stella Meghie at the scene, said Wednesday his press secretary. The American singer accidentally died in 2012, drowned in her bathtub.
“I Wanna Dance With Somebody” will be co-produced by New Zealand screenwriter Anthony McCarten, who also wrote the script, according to the specialized website Deadline. The 58-year-old author remains on a series of recent successes, all of them biopics, with “The dark hours” (2017), “Bohemian Rhapsody” (2018) and “The two popes” (2019).
Whitney Houston’s heirs have agreed and are collaborating on the project, according to Deadline. The official website of the artist resumed Wednesday the Deadline article. Also on the team, according to Deadline, producer Clive Davis, the man who made Whitney Houston sign his first recording contract.
Gospel choir
Whitney Houston died at the age of 48, drowned in her bathtub after ingesting a large quantity of cocaine. Despite an end to her career marked by drug addiction, she remains one of the great voices of the R’n’B and popular music in general for the past thirty years.
Two recent documentaries have lifted the veil on previously taboo aspects of the life of her gamer in a gospel choir in Newark, New Jersey.
“Whitney” testified that Whitney Houston had been sexually assaulted in her youth by a cousin much older than her.
“Whitney: Can I Be Me” was about the singer’s romantic relationship with another woman, Robyn Crawford, whom she hid for much of her adult life.
“I know the story of Whitney Houston has yet to be told in its entirety,” said Clive Davis, in a statement to Deadline. The producer assured that the scenario would be “without taboo”, and “musically rich”.
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