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Ridley Scott To Direct Paramount’s Bee Gees Movie From GK Films
Ridley Scott is in negotiations to direct the untitled Bee Gees pic at the studio.
EXCLUSIVE: With their Bob Marley movie, One Love, opening this weekend, Paramount Pictures is now moving fast on another high profile biopic on popular music group, looking to have found an A-list director to lead the project. Ultimately, the film never came together and Scott would go on to direct The Duelist instead but that desire to tell some sort of story on the group remind and now nearly 50 years later he has that chance for things to come full circle. Even though the soaring success made them world famous, rich and an indelible part of the ’70s zeitgeist, their position as the symbol of disco put them unexpectedly on their heels when there was an eventual backlash to the whole polyester vibe.
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