{"id":491812,"date":"2019-11-02T08:28:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T14:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=907401"},"modified":"2019-11-02T08:28:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T14:28:48","slug":"bee-gees-biopic-in-the-works-from-bohemian-rhapsody-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/bee-gees-biopic-in-the-works-from-bohemian-rhapsody-producer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bee Gees Biopic in the Works From \u2018Bohemian Rhapsody\u2019 Producer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/7335671a.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>A music biopic about Rock Hall-inducted hitmakers the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bee-gees\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bee-gees\" data-tag=\"bee-gees\">Bee Gees<\/a> is in the works, with <em>Bohemian Rhapsody<\/em> producer Graham King, Paramount Pictures and Steven Spielberg\u2019s Amblin Partners shepherding the project.<\/p>\n<p>King\u2019s GK Films, which brought the box office hit and Oscar-nominated Queen biopic to the big screen, secured to the life rights to the Gibb brothers\u2019 story as well as the group\u2019s music rights, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2019\/10\/bee-gees-movie-biopic-paramount-sister-graham-king-stacey-snider-barry-gibb-maurice-gibb-robin-gibb-saturday-night-fever-1202773513\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deadline first reported<\/a>. Paramount Pictures, which found success in the Elton John biopic <em>Rocketman<\/em>, and production company Sister are also attached to the film.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/steven-spielberg-added-paramounts-bee-gees-movie-development-snafu-1251831\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>the Hollywood Reporter<\/em> writes<\/a> that Steven Spielberg had long been working on setting up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-bee-gees\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-bee-gees\" data-tag=\"the-bee-gees\">the Bee Gees<\/a>\u2019 film for over a decade \u2013 first with DreamWorks and more recently with his Amblin \u2013 and has since been added to the biopic as a producer; Amblin was previously unsuccessful in securing the necessary rights from Barry Gibb, the Bee Gees\u2019 lone surviving member. Gibb<\/p>\n<p>As the biopic has just received the green light, no director, screenwriter or actors are lined up for the Bee Gees movie, the latest in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/hollywood-biopics-save-rock-podcast-816748\/\">a streak of Hollywood-made rock biopics<\/a>. One of the best-selling acts of all time, Bee Gees registered nine Number One singles over their five-decade career as well as the diamond-selling, Grammy Album of the Year-winning <em>Saturday Night Fever<\/em> soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bee-gees-biopic-bohemian-rhapsody-spielberg-907401\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A music biopic about Rock Hall-inducted hitmakers the Bee Gees is in the works, with Bohemian Rhapsody producer Graham King, Paramount Pictures and Steven Spielberg\u2019s Amblin Partners shepherding the project. King\u2019s GK Films, which brought the box office hit and Oscar-nominated Queen biopic to the big screen, secured to the life rights to the Gibb [&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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 05:49:18","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":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}