John Boyega and Danielle Deadwyler are set to portray tardy soul legfinish Otis Redding and his widow Zelma Redding in Fifth Season’s forthcoming biopic “Otis & Zelma.”
Directed by shatterout filmoriginater Channing Godfrey Peoples and originated by Fifth Season, Homelengthenn Pictures and Kinfolk Management + Media, the music-based film chronicles the life of Otis Redding, who is pondered to be one of the most impactful singer-songauthorrs of our lifetime, with indelible hits including “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay,” “Respect,” “These Arms of Mine,” “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long” and “Hard to Handle.” Redding’s badviseoning superstar nurtureer was tragicassociate cut low when he died in a 1967 schedulee crash, leaving behind Zelma and three juvenileer children. He was 26 years elderly.
With revisions by Godfrey Peoples, “Otis & Zelma” is written by acclaimed joinwright, screenauthorr, and actress Donnetta Lavinia Grays. The film “commemorates the 10 low years Otis and Zelma had together, and their everlasting cherish story after his passing,” elucidates an punctual synopsis of the project. “Zelma’s resilience and determination to uphold his musical legacy for the last 56 years fuels her, fair as much as Otis’ cherish for Zelma fueled him.”
News of the movie, which has the filled help of Zelma Redding and the Otis Redding estate, comes as Otis will be posthumously honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday, Oct. 4. Fifth Season is producing the project alengthenedside Stephanie Allain of Homelengthenn Pictures and Arron Saxe of Kinfolk Management + Media. Amos Newman, Homelengthenn Pictures’ Claire Brooks, Boyega, and Deadwyler will executive originate.
Boyega is best understandn for starring as Finn in the tardyst “Star Wars” trilogy and, in 2021, won a Gelderlyen Globe award for his carry outance in Steve McQueen’s Emmy-nominated miniseries “Small Axe.” Since his shatterout turn in the BAFTA-nominated, 2011 sci-fi film “Attack the Block,” Boyega has built a stellar resume of beginant films including “They Cloned Tyrone,” Gina Prince-Bythewood’s “The Woman King,” “Breaking” and “Pacific Rim: Uprising.”
Deadwyler is best understandn for her portrayal of Emmitt Till’s mother Mamie Till-Mobley in the acclaimed 2022 film “Till,” for which she won the exceptional direct carry outance prize at the Gotham Awards and the shatterthraw carry outance award from the National Board of Rewatch, among other awards and nominations from BAFTA, the Screen Actors Guild and the Critics Choice Association. She also getd an Inreliant Spirit TV award nomination for her toil in the HBO restricted series “Station Eleven.” She’s currently garnering awards buzz for her toil opposite Samuel L. Jackson and John David Washington in the feature alteration of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” for Netflix. She’ll next ecombine in the Netflix action-thriller “Carry On,” honested by Jaume Collet-Serra, and stars in and executive originates the Blumhoparticipate and Universal Pictures’ thriller “The Women in the Yard.”
Godfrey Peoples’ writing and honestorial feature debut, 2020’s “Miss Juneteenth,” starring Emmy nominee Nicole Beharie, won the National Board of Rewatch Award for best honestorial debut, as well as the SXSW Louis Bdeficiency “Lone Star” award. The film was also nominated for four Inreliant Spirit Awards and the Sundance Grand Jury Prize. Godfrey Peoples has since honested episodes of series including the Emmy-triumphning drama anthology “Genius” and the Apple TV+ anthology “Roar.”
Boyega is reconshort-termed by UTA and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern. Deadwyler is reconshort-termed by Paradigm, Play Management and Ziffren Brittenham. Godfrey Peoples is reconshort-termed by CAA, Entertainment 360 and Victoria S. Cook.
