{"id":2446525,"date":"2019-07-19T08:41:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T14:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=861060"},"modified":"2019-07-19T08:41:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T14:41:44","slug":"a-lou-pearlman-biopic-is-officially-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/a-lou-pearlman-biopic-is-officially-in-the-works\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lou Pearlman Biopic Is Officially in the Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Lou-Pearlman.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lance-bass\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lance-bass\" data-tag=\"lance-bass\">Lance Bass<\/a>-produced YouTube documentary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/boy-band-con-lou-pearlman-story-trailer-807696\/\"><em>The Boy Band Con<\/em><\/a>, a biopic of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lou-pearlman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lou-pearlman\" data-tag=\"lou-pearlman\">Lou Pearlman<\/a> is officially in the works. <em>Transcon&nbsp;<\/em>will tell the story of late boy band mogul turned Ponzi schemer, who died in prison in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Producer Edward R. Pressman and Greg Basser (previously the CEO of Village Roadshow Entertainment) have teamed up for the biopic \u2014 along with hitmakers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/desmond-child\/\" id=\"auto-tag_desmond-child\" data-tag=\"desmond-child\">Desmond Child<\/a>, Andreas Carlsson and fashion guru David Anton. The group acquired the rights to the infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2007\/11\/pearlman200711\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">2007 Vanity Fair feature<\/a> by Bryan Burrough, along with Tyler Grey\u2019s 2009 book <em>The Hit Charade: Lou Pearlman, Boy Bands, and the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in U.S. History.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLou Pearlman indisputably changed the course of popular music, and what he envisioned influenced the entertainment business as we know it today,\u201d Pressman said in a statement. \u201cHowever, while fascinating, Lou\u2019s character was flawed and, having climbed to the top of an industry, he then unraveled in an unprecedented manner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Responsible for starting and managing N\u2019Sync, Backstreet Boys, O-Town, LFO and others, Pearlman was sentenced to serving 25 years in prison after being convicted of running one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in history. He served eight years before dying of heart failure in 2016.&nbsp;No release date for <em>Transcon<\/em> has been announced yet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lou-pearlman-official-biopic-861060\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Lance Bass-produced YouTube documentary The Boy Band Con, a biopic of Lou Pearlman is officially in the works. Transcon&nbsp;will tell the story of late boy band mogul turned Ponzi schemer, who died in prison in 2016. Producer Edward R. Pressman and Greg Basser (previously the CEO of Village Roadshow Entertainment) have teamed up [&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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 21:15:52","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}