Admit it, you don’t know much about The Bee Gees. You know their songs, you remember how they dressed and of course you recall those amazing falsetto voices. But you don’t know much about their personal lives, do you? There’s no shame in that, I don’t either. But if Paramount has its way, you will soon be learning a lot more about The Bee Gees.
That’s because they are creating a musical biopic based on the lives and careers of Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibbs. Paramount is teaming with Bohemian Rhapsody producer Graham King and the Gibbs estate to create the film, meaning this will be a big, well-financed film with the original Bee Gee songs in it. Now they just need to find the right actors to play the parts. Those are some big shoes and big, white disco suits to fill.
The Bee Gees were a phenomenal pop group, one of the most successful and important bands of their time. Obviously they are best known for their work on Saturday Night Fever but their musical catalogue was far more vast than just that. Their ballads were particularly great, if you ask me. Plus they were three brothers who stuck together through thick and thin despite some painful personal tragedies along the way. That’s the sort of drama that will make a great movie.
It’s obvious that Paramount and other studios are still in the musical biopic business (remember that Bohemian Rhapsody made nearly a billion dollars) so you can bet that this Bee Gees movie won’t be the last one of its kind. There are still many, many other musical groups that can get the big screen treatment. Personally I am still rooting for a Bowie biopic. I can’t imagine I will have to wait much longer.
