The actor Leonardo DiCaprio will play the legendary american producer Sam Phillips, who worked with Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins, among others, in the cinebiografia that which is considered as “the inventor of rock ‘n’ roll”, reported on Friday (22) to the international press.
Paramount Pictures purchased the rights to the book “Sam Phillips: The man who invented rock’ n ‘roll” about the founder of the legendary record label Sun Records. Mick Jagger must work as executive producer on the project.
in Addition to the lead singer of the Rolling Stones, the production executive will have the signature of Peter Guralnick, author of the book used as the basis for the production of the feature film.
according To the website Deadline, the movie will be developed by the Appian Way, the production company’s own Dicaprio. The studio is still looking for a director and a screenwriter for the project.
The plot will portray the man who, in his little studio in Memphis, helped transform into stars and artists such as Elvis, Ike Turner, Howlin’ Wolf and Jerry Lee Lewis.
DiCaprio, who won this year’s Oscar for best actor for performance in “The return”, has not yet determined which will be the next step of his career. Currently, he has on the table other proposals that are based on books.
This week, Paramount had already announced that it will join forces with DiCaprio to release a movie based on the cartoon “Captain Planet”.
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