EXCLUSIVE: A24 is including to its partnership with megastar Zendaya and her movie on the lifetime of singer Ronnie Spector, with Barry Jenkins approaching board to direct with with Dave Kajganich tapped to put in writing an unique screenplay. Zendaya will play the legendary songstress and in keeping with sources, the star and Jenkins, who’d been trying to work collectively for a while, agreed on a model of Spector’s story that might immerse audiences in what the singer’s life with the troubled producer Phil Spector felt like quite than a standard cradle to the grave biopic.
We’re listening to the offers for Spector’s life rights and for Be My Child, the memoir she wrote with Vince Waldron, stay in tact. The movie is in improvement with Luca Guadagnino author Kajganich is tough at work on a expressive interpretation of Spector’s life Zendaya. and Jenkins are after.
A24 landed the recent spec in 2022 and can produce together with Marc Platt, Adam Siegel, Mark Itkin, Tom Shelly, and Zendaya. Jonathan Greenfield will govt produce. Earlier than her passing, Spector was an govt producer on the movie and hand-selected Zendaya to play her. Adele Romanski and Mark Ceryak, Jenkin’s companions at Pastel, may even be becoming a member of as producers.
This marks yet one more collaboration for A24 and Jenkins together with Finest Image Winner Moonlight and the upcoming Sundance darling Sorry, Child by which Jenkins served as a producer. That is additionally the third collaboration for A24 and Zendaya following the Emmy-Award profitable Euphoria and the upcoming movie The Drama co-starring Robert Pattinson. She is repped by CAA and Monster Expertise Administration, and Granderson Des Rochers
Jenkins lately directed Mufasa for Disney which has crossed $700 million on the international field workplace. The movie lately hit one other milestone changing into the sixth highest grossing movie of 2024, passing Dune Half Two. He most notably directed Finest Image Winner Moonlight, which additionally received him the Oscar for Tailored Screenplay. Jenkins’ If Beale Road May Speak obtained three Oscar nominations and received the Impartial Spirit Award for Finest Movie. His restricted sequence Underground Railroad received him greatest restricted sequence on the Golden Globes and BAFTA and earned Jenkins a DGA Award for Finest Director. It additionally scored seven Emmy nomination.
He additionally lately teamed with one other busy A-lister in Glen Powell on the grownup sci fi pic The Pure Order for Common. The pic is predicated on the upcoming novel by Matt Aldrich and has Powell starring and Jenkins directing. Jenkins is repped by CAA, supervisor Jewerl Keats Ross and lawyer Jamie Feldman
Kajganich’s screenwriting credit embody three movies for Luca Guadagnino, A Greater Splash, Suspiria and Bones and All, in addition to creating and operating the primary season of AMC’s The Terror. He’s repped by Nameless Content material, UTA and Jackoway, Austen, Tyerman, and Wertheimer.
