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EXCLUSIVE: Vertical has acquired North American rights to Girl You Know It’s True, a music biopic chronicling pop sensation Milli Vanilli‘s meteoric rise and tabloid-fueled fall in the late ’80s to early ’90s. Written and directed by Simon Verhoeven, and starring Tijan Njie and Elan Ben Ali, the film will be released day-and-date on August 9.

A.D. Amorosi Frank Farian, the influential electronic music producer, composer and founder of the German/Caribbean disco funk ensemble Boney M, and the man behind the creation of the notorious pop duo Milli Vanilli.

Fab Morvan recalls one of the last times he saw his “Girl You Know It’s True” partner Rob Pilatus before his death from an accidental overdose in 1998.It was outside the Viper Room rock club in Hollywood, California, where the fallen pop star — disgraced after the lip-syncing scandal that forced the duo to return the Best New Artist Grammy it won in 1990 — was now far from the green-eyed heartthrob he once was when they were MTV sensations.“I see a dude stumbling across the way,” says Morvan, 57, in the doc. “As he was falling, his body turned, and I looked into his eyes, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is not true.’ I’m looking at Rob Pilatus.”Then Morvan took Pilatus home — to what appeared to be a crack house.Nine years after Milli Vanilli had a string of chart-topping hits in 1989 — “Girl You Know It’s True” was followed by consecutive No.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic It’s one of the inside-out realities of our era that scandal, if you give it enough time, turns into myth. So it is with the story of Milli Vanilli, the German-French R&B pop duo of the late ’80s and early ’90s who, having sold close to 50 million records, were revealed to be a fake: a pair of lip-syncing Euro pretty boys who hadn’t sung a note on any of their hits or at any of their concerts. Once they’d been unmasked, the rise and fall of Milli Vanilli played out on two levels. The first was the spectacular embarrassing bad joke of it all — though it was never just a joke, since Milli Vanilli’s fans felt a tremendous sense of anger and betrayal at having been fooled. (The joke was on them.) The second level recognized a crucial and obvious truth: that the scandal wasn’t only about Rob Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan, with their teenybop dreads and break-lite dance moves, getting up onstage and singing to prerecorded tracks, as if it had all been their idea. No, the brazen fakery of Milli Vanilli echoed, or at least rhymed with, various other kinds of fakery that were embedded in the music industry (the packaging of boy bands, the use of lip-syncing by established stars). This was certainly more extreme, and worthy of being called on the carpet for, but it wasn’t a stand-alone sin.

On Thursday, Leonine Studios unveiled the first two stills from Girl You Know It's True, filmmaker Simon Verhoeven's (Nightlife, Welcome to Germany) biopic on the scandalous eighties duo Milli Vanilli.Both of the stars are essentially newcomers with French actor Elan Ben Ali (Goutte d'or) playing Fab Morvan.German actor Tijan Njie (Alles was zählt) takes on the role of the late Rob Pilatus in the movie, which will be in production through December in Munich, Berlin, Capetown, and LA. Blame it on the rain! On Thursday, Leonine Studios unveiled the first two stills from Girl You Know It's True, filmmaker Simon Verhoeven's (Nightlife, Welcome to Germany) biopic on the scandalous eighties duo Milli Vanilli Army of Thieves star Matthias Schweighöfer portrays German record producer Frank Farian - who came up with the idea of having Milli Vanilli lip-synch vocals by Charles Shaw, Brad Howell, and the late John Davis.Davis' daughter Jasmin and Howell are serving as associate producers on Girl You Know It's True as well as Rob's sister Carmen, Milli Vanilli's former assistant Todd Headlee, and Farian's assistant Ingrid 'Milli' Segieth.The fraud worked as Milli Vanilli became a global sensation scoring three No.

On Thursday, Leonine Studios unveiled the first two stills from Girl You Know It's True, filmmaker Simon Verhoeven's (Nightlife, Welcome to Germany) biopic on the scandalous eighties duo Milli Vanilli.Both of the stars are essentially newcomers with French actor Elan Ben Ali (Goutte d'or) playing Fab Morvan.German actor Tijan Njie (Alles was zählt) takes on the role of the late Rob Pilatus in the movie, which will be in production through December in Munich, Berlin, Capetown, and LA. Blame it on the rain! On Thursday, Leonine Studios unveiled the first two stills from Girl You Know It's True, filmmaker Simon Verhoeven's (Nightlife, Welcome to Germany) biopic on the scandalous eighties duo Milli Vanilli Army of Thieves star Matthias Schweighöfer portrays German record producer Frank Farian - who came up with the idea of having Milli Vanilli lip-synch vocals by Charles Shaw, Brad Howell, and the late John Davis.Davis' daughter Jasmin and Howell are serving as associate producers on Girl You Know It's True as well as Rob's sister Carmen, Milli Vanilli's former assistant Todd Headlee, and Farian's assistant Ingrid 'Milli' Segieth.The fraud worked as Milli Vanilli became a global sensation scoring three No.

On Thursday, Leonine Studios unveiled the first two stills from Girl You Know It's True, filmmaker Simon Verhoeven's (Nightlife, Welcome to Germany) biopic on the scandalous eighties duo Milli Vanilli.Both of the stars are essentially newcomers with French actor Elan Ben Ali (Goutte d'or) playing Fab Morvan.German actor Tijan Njie (Alles was zählt) takes on the role of the late Rob Pilatus in the movie, which will be in production through December in Munich, Berlin, Capetown, and LA. Blame it on the rain! On Thursday, Leonine Studios unveiled the first two stills from Girl You Know It's True, filmmaker Simon Verhoeven's (Nightlife, Welcome to Germany) biopic on the scandalous eighties duo Milli Vanilli Army of Thieves star Matthias Schweighöfer portrays German record producer Frank Farian - who came up with the idea of having Milli Vanilli lip-synch vocals by Charles Shaw, Brad Howell, and the late John Davis.Davis' daughter Jasmin and Howell are serving as associate producers on Girl You Know It's True as well as Rob's sister Carmen, Milli Vanilli's former assistant Todd Headlee, and Farian's assistant Ingrid 'Milli' Segieth.The fraud worked as Milli Vanilli became a global sensation scoring three No.

Girl You Know It’s True.Directed by Simon Verhoeven, Girl You Know It’s True follows the story of duo Fabrice Morvan and Rob Pilatus who, after achieving international success in the late 1980s as Milli Vanilli, were involved in a scandal when it was discovered they didn’t sing vocals on any of their songs.Newcomers Tijan Njie and Elan Ben Ali are set to portray Pilatus and Morvan respectively in the biopic, while Matthias Schweighöfer will play German music producer Frank Farian (pictured on Deadline).Other cast members include Graham Rogers as Milli Vanilli’s US assistant Todd and Bella Dayne as Milli, described as Farian’s right-hand woman. Quirin Berg and Max Wiedemann serve as executive producers on the project.The film is named after the group’s 1989 debut album, which led them to win a Grammy for Best New Artist in 1990.

Singer John Davis has sadly passed away at the age of 66 on May 24.

John Davis, a singer whose vocals were heard by millions on the hit 1988 single “Girl You Know It’s True” – even as his identity remained the secret behind the lip-syncing duo Milli Vanilli – has died of Covid-19. He was 66.

German R&B band Milli Vanilli's lip-syncing scandal rocked the music world in 1989.

Singer behind Milli Vanilli's hits John Davis has died aged 66 after a fight with coronavirus.

Milli Vanilli, has died from coronavirus at the age of 66.Davis was the actual singer on Milli Vanilli’s 1989 album ‘Girl You Know It’s True’.The duo, comprised of Fabrice Morvan and Rob Pilatus, sold more than 30 million singles and took credit for Davis’ talents as they lip-synced to hits they never recorded.But when the truth emerged, the pair were forced to return the Grammy Award they won for Best New Artist in 1990.