CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Variety reports:

Sony has bought the upcoming Whitney Houston biopic, titled “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.” The studio plans to release the movie in theaters around Thanksgiving in 2022.

Stella Meghie (“The Photograph”) directed the film from a script by Anthony McCarten (“The Two Popes,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “The Darkest Hour”).

Music producer Clive Davis is producing “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” which is being made in collaboration with the Whitney Houston Estate. The movie centers on the iconic musician, who died in 2012 at the age of 48.

EXCLUSIVE: Sony’s TriStar Pictures has won a hot and heavy auction for ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’, the feature film on the life and music of iconic songstress Whitney Houston https://t.co/bL2BUyjLs5

— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) August 4, 2020

Anthony McCarten, the writer behind ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ will pen the screenplay, while @stellamink, who was behind ‘The Photograph,’ will direct https://t.co/eKiQEacYJB

— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) August 4, 2020