Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: A24 is putting together a film package that will have Emmy-winning Euphoria star Zendaya attached to play singer Ronnie Spector in a film about her life.
Deals have just closed for Spector’s life rights and for Be My Baby, the book she wrote with Vince Waldron. I’m hearing that early conversations are happening with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury to write the script.The film will be produced by Marc Platt, who is producing the Rob Marshall-directed The Little Mermaid, Dear Evan Hansen and Wicked.
Jonathan Greenfield and Ronnie Spector will be the exec producers and Zendaya will also be involved as a producer as all these deals come together.
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