{"id":974147,"date":"2019-12-20T08:20:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T15:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=929884"},"modified":"2019-12-20T08:20:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T15:20:49","slug":"jennifer-hudson-belts-a-capella-respect-in-first-aretha-franklin-biopic-teaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/jennifer-hudson-belts-a-capella-respect-in-first-aretha-franklin-biopic-teaser\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Hudson Belts A Capella \u2018Respect\u2019 in First Aretha Franklin Biopic Teaser"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/JenniferHudson.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jennifer-hudson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jennifer-hudson\" data-tag=\"jennifer-hudson\">Jennifer Hudson<\/a> belts a stunning snippet of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/aretha-franklin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_aretha-franklin\" data-tag=\"aretha-franklin\">Aretha Franklin<\/a>\u2019s \u201cRespect\u201d in the first teaser for the upcoming biopic about the late singer, <i>Respect<\/i>. The film is set to open in 2020, although an exact release date has yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The short clip finds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jennifer-hudson-to-portray-aretha-franklin-in-biopic-202495\/\">Hudson, as Franklin<\/a>, on an empty stage, backlit in brilliant gold, singing \u201cRespect\u201d almost entirely a cappella \u2014 save for some backing vocals and a tension-building synth. As Hudson hits the chorus, the word \u201cRespect\u201d lights up in big letters behind her, then she runs through the song\u2019s iconic spell-it-out refrain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Liesl Tommy will direct <i>Respect<\/i>, which will also star Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, Audra McDonald, Marc Maron, Tituss Burgess, Saycon Sengbloh, Hailey Kilgore, Tate Donovan, Heather Headley, Skye Dakota Turner and Mary J. Blige.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Along with the upcoming biopic, National Geographic is set to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/aretha-franklin-cynthia-erivo-genius-series-894718\/\">cover Franklin in the third season<\/a> of its anthology series, <i>Genius<\/i>, which is expected to premiere next spring. Actress Cynthia Erivo \u2014 who played Harriet Tubman in the recent biopic <i>Harriet <\/i>\u2014 will star as the Queen of Soul.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jennifer-hudson-respect-aretha-franklin-biopic-clip-929884\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Hudson belts a stunning snippet of Aretha Franklin\u2019s \u201cRespect\u201d in the first teaser for the upcoming biopic about the late singer, Respect. The film is set to open in 2020, although an exact release date has yet to be announced. The short clip finds Hudson, as Franklin, on an empty stage, backlit in brilliant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 02:23:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}