EXCLUSIVE: 4-time Grammy award winner Lizzo shall be taking over the guitar to play Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the gospel singer who was one of many first to enchantment to rock n’ roll and R&B audiences, in Amazon MGM Studios‘ Rosetta.
The undertaking is at the moment in improvement with Lizzo, Kevin Beisler, Vital Productions’ Nina Yang Bongiovi and Forest Whitaker producing. Natalie Chaidez (The Flight Attendant, Queen of the South) and Kwynn Perry (Tigerbelles, The Burned Picture) are writing the screenplay.
With out Tharpe, there can be no rock n’ roll. Her affect on widespread music spans many years and contains Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Johnny Money, and numerous others. Impressed by true occasions, the movie will seize a pivotal interval in Thrape’s life—one in all groundbreaking innovation, defiant ardour, and secret love. As she shatters musical boundaries along with her signature guitar sound, she should navigate societal constraints, conceal her love for an additional girl, and finally remodel a marriage into one of the vital legendary live shows in historical past—the primary stadium present.
Singer-songwriter, rapper and thespian Lizzo can be an Emmy Award winner. She notched two Scorching 100 #1 smashes, earned dozens of gold, platinum, and multi-platinum certifications. Lizzo notably made historical past in 2023 when she emerged as the primary Black girl to obtain Document of the Yr on the GRAMMY Awards since 1994 for the 2x Platinum “About Rattling Time.” Previous to that, she shook the charts with the 9x Platinum “Fact Hurts,” which dominated the Scorching 100 for seven weeks, changing into the longest-running #1 by a solo feminine rap artist ever. In 2024, the music surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify. Alongside the best way, she’s headlined her personal Emmy-nominated HBO particular, Lizzo: Dwell In Live performance, in addition to produced and starred within the multi-Emmy Award-winning Amazon MGM Studios actuality TV present Watch Out For the Huge Grrrls. In 2019, Lizzo starred within the crime dramedy Hustlers alongside Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Stiles, Lili Reinhart, Keke Palmer, and Cardi B. She was additionally the main focus of the 2022 HBO Max documentary Love, Lizzo, which offered an intimate look into her life and profession. She additionally has her personal inclusive shapewear line, Yitty. She just lately returned with brand-new music along with her single “Nonetheless Unhealthy,” in addition to “Love In Actual Life,” along with her fifth full-length LP of the identical identify forthcoming this yr.
Vital Productions’ mission is to champion and produce culturally vital movies and tv exhibits, alongside diversified illustration behind the digital camera. Beneath the banner, BAFTA-nominated, award-winning producing companions Bongiovi and Whitaker are famend for locating expertise, together with Ryan Coogler and Chloe Zhao, whose debut movies Fruitvale Station and Songs My Brothers Taught Me, are produced by the duo; they’ve additionally produced critically acclaimed and monetarily profitable function movies by auteur filmmakers like Rick Famuyiwa’s Dope (Sony), Michael Larnell’s Roxanne Roxanne (Netflix), Boots Riley’s Sorry to Trouble You (Annapurna), and Rebecca Corridor’s Passing (Netflix). And extra just lately, the corporate produced Erica Tremblay’s Fancy Dance (Apple). In tv, Bongiovi and Whitaker are govt producers of Godfather of Harlem and the docuseries Hollywood Black, each on MGM+, and are in energetic improvement of the upcoming Amazon MGM premium fantasy collection, Rise of the Empress.
Natalie Chaidez is represented by CAA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer et al. Kwynn Perry is represented by Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer et al. Lizzo is repped by Full Cease Administration, UTA and Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks.
