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Barry Jenkins to Direct Ronnie Spector Biopic ‘Be My Baby,’ Starring Zendaya
Barry Jenkins has been tapped to direct the upcoming Ronnie Spector biopic 'Be My Baby' starring Zendaya.
A24 has tapped Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins to direct Be My Baby, the Zendaya-starring biopic of singer Ronnie Spector. According to Deadline who first reported the news, Zendaya and Jenkins have agreed to focus the biopic on the Ronettes singer’s six-year marriage to controversial producer Phil Spector; the memoir chronicles Spector as a survivor of physical and psychological abuse at the hands of her husband. In 2021, Phil Spector died at age 81 at a California state prison hospital, where he was serving a 19-years-to-life sentence for murder.
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