It’s happening.
Cher is the latest musical diva to get the big, Hollywood biopic treatment because SHE’S CHER, OK? (Hair flip strongly implied). This was only a matter of time.
The singer and actress, who celebrates her 75th birthday this week, announced on social media that Universal Pictures is going in big on the film, which will tell the story of her unparalleled career.
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Though it doesn’t have a name or a script yet, the project will be produced by Judy Craymer and Gary Goetzman (Mamma Mia). Cher will also be a producer.
Oscar-winning screenwriter Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, The Insider, Munich) will lend his quill and we’re getting goosebumps already.
Cher broke the news to her nearly four million Twitter followers by writing: “Ok Universal is Doing Biopic With My Friends. JUDY CRAYMER, GARY GOETZMAN PRODUCING. THEY produced both Mamma Mias, & MY DEAR DEAR Friend 4 YRS, & OSCAR WINNER..ERIC ROTH IS GOING 2 WRITE IT. Forrest Gump, A Star Is Born, Suspect TO NAME A FEW OF IS FILMS.”
Ok Universal is Doing Biopic With My Friends JUDY CRAYMER,GARY GOETZMAN PRODUCING.
THEYY PRODUCED
BOTH MAMMA MIA’S,&
MY DEAR DEAR Friend 4 YRS, & OSCAR WINNER..ERIC ROTH IS GOING 2 WRITE IT????
FORREST GUMP
A STAR IS BORN
SUSPECT
TO NAME A FEW OF IS FILMS— Cher (@cher) May 19, 2021
All of it. We want all of it!
cuteguy
It will be interesting to see who they choose as the leading lady? Will it be an Oscar winning role like Rene Zellewegger a la Judy or a dud like the lifetime movie “mess” Wendy Williams bio? I think it will be the former but Cher is a living legend and those are extremely HUGE shoes to fill
Sqwoah
sounds boring
scrough
Stay home. I’ll take your seat. 🙂
kevininbuffalo
She’s still alive? Get ready for another “Rocket Man”
hagiography/snooze fest.
connorlarkin19
Go pop a pimple teenybopper
boblrice
Well Kevin, then I’m sure you’ve lived a much more interesting life in Buffalo. One that’s had a even more profound impact on modern culture, societal norms, and national politics. Please let us know when your biopic is expected.
lord.krath
Well, I’m sure many fans know a lot about her history. A proper film capturing it would be nice. I love the people that claim these biopics are boring. I’m not sorry: unless you’re an astronaut, or a deep-sea diver, or an explorer of some sort, it is unlikely that your standard of boring applies. These stars may not be anything special in terms of just being another human, but they go through more than the average person does. They sought it out, sure, but “be careful what you wish for” is a thing for a reason. That is a result of fame, temptation, money, etc. If getting a peek into the trials and tribulations these folk have is boring, then perhaps there should be one done about you and I’m guessing most of it wouldn’t even be Insta/TikTok worthy.
Fahd
I enjoyed Rocket Man and Bohemian Rhapsody. If they can do as good a job of integrating biography and music for Cher, it will be an entertaining movie. Looking forward to hearing more about cast, director, etc.
Manrico Jimenez
Does she not know that Internet etiquette means ALL CAPS IS SHOUTING?
amanwithanedge
SHUT UP.
Troyfight
yeah, SHUT UP.
jsthib
um…she DOES and she WAS!
myklwykl
Troian Bellisario is a great Cher lookalike.
G-Man
It’s about time I just hope it’s not a watered down version of her life.
Jack Meoff
It needs to warts and all like the Tine Turner biopic not another Rocket Man.
dhmonarch89
10 TO 1 It will be called ‘BELIEVE’ The best bio pics are the ones where the subject is not involved- too much ego stroking when star is producing/assisting, etc.
winemaker
Hard to believe cher’s 75 today. Born May 20th 1946 in El Centro California. Who da known?
jackmister
I hope Cher plays herself in her teens and twenties. That would be hysterical. A modern ‘What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?’
KyleMichelSullivan
I hope they do it with a series of drag queens at the various stages of her life. Nothing straightforward or simplistic, since she never was.
KRobert57
Cher is Cher…a one word…her name and one kind of entertainer, one kind of woman, one kind of wife, one kind of mother and one kind of singer. Her work ethic was/is extremely coherent and fixated. Cher is loved world wide and of course, beloved by the gay community in many countries. Her life is very interesting: she was ostracized for being “the dark one;” her mother was jealous of her talent and she was used by Sonny so that he could be in the limelight of Cher’s talent and beauty. She broke away and learned how to do things on her own. So, a biopic will be interesting, celebratory or an embarrassment and a huge flop. Cher is Cher, bitch!
Paul33iN
Troian Bellisario is a great Cher lookalike.