Daisy Edgar-Jones is set to play Carole King in Sony Pictures’ feature take of Tony Award-winning Broadway hit musical, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Deadline has confirmed.
The Kids Are All Right Oscar nominated filmmaker Lisa Cholodenko will direct and produce with Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and Paul Blake, who also produced the stage show.
Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg are writing the latest draft of the screenplay based on Douglas McGrath’s book of the musical.
The pic will follow King’s rise to fame and off-stage triumphs and tragedies. Beautiful was nominated for seven Tony awards, winning two. “Daisy has a spirit and energy that I recognized as myself when I was younger.
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