Hans Edinger/Associated Press The hardest-working man in show business: James Brown.The producers of a planned biographical film on James Brown are feeling good â€" good enough to move forward with the movie now that they have an actor to play the Godfather of Soul and a green light from Universal on the project. Variety reported that the as-yet untitled film will star Chadwick Boseman, who portrayed Jackie Robinson in this year’s hit film “42,†will play Brown, the pioneering R&B star who died in 2006.
Chris Pizzello/Invision, via Associated Press Chadwick BosemanThe Brown film, which is being directed by Tate Taylor (“The Helpâ€) and written by Jez and John-Henry Butterworth (“Fair Gameâ€), will chronicle the musician’s life from his impoverished upbringing in the South to his cape-wearing, can’t-get-him-off-the-stage heyday. No release date was immediately announced for the film, which is being produced by Imagine Entertainment and Jagged Films, the film company of Mick Jagger, a man who surely knows a thing or two about sweaty stage theatrics.
