McG In Final Talks To Direct KISS Biopic ‘Shout It Out Loud’ As Project Lands At STX Entertainment
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deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: McG (Way of the Warrior Kid) is in final negotiations to direct Shout It Out Loud, a biopic about Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley and their superstar rock band KISS, which will be produced by STX Entertainment, sources tell Deadline.
STX declined to comment. But we hear the studio is in discussions with Lionsgate to distribute the film worldwide and co-finance.
The project had previously been set up at Netflix, following a bidding war, with Joachim Rønning attached to direct, as we first reported in 2021.
No word on the framing the film will take in looking at KISS’s decades-long musical journey. Financed by UMG, the most recent draft of the script is written by Darren Lemke (Shazam!, Gemini Man).
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