The Sam Cooke Biopic is Moving Forward – Screenplay Complete
Start singing “Ain’t That Good News”: A Sam Cooke biopic has taken a significant step toward becoming a reality.
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singing “Ain’t That Good News”: A Sam Cooke biopic has taken a
significant step toward becoming a reality. The screenwriters behind the
all-Beatles musical “Across the Universe” have finished their
adaptation of Peter Guralnick’s definitive biography of Sam Cooke for
ABKCO, which owns Cooke’s publishing and the bulk of his master
recordings. ABKCO CEO Jody Klein is now looking for a director.
Clement and Ian La Frenais recently completed their adaptation of
“Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke,” which Klein optioned in the
fall of 2009. The book was published in 2005, two years after Guralnick
had written the script for “Sam Cooke: Legend,” the only authorized
documentary on Cooke. It won a Grammy for longform video. To continue, please click “MORE”!