The First Trailer for Upcoming Whitney Houston Biopic ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’ Has Arrived: Watch - Billboard

Move over, Elvis — there’s a new biopic coming to town. The first trailer for I Wanna Dance With Somebody, a film examining the career and once in a lifetime voice of Whitney Houston, arrived Thursday (Sept. 15), giving viewers their very first look at Naomi Ackie’s impassioned portrayal of the icon.

Explore

Explore

See latest videos, charts and news

See latest videos, charts and news

Along with Ackie, I Wanna Dance with Somebody also stars Stanley Tucci as legendary record producer Clive Davis, who famously discovered Houston while she was performing at a New York City nightclub and signed her to his label, Arista Records. A glimpse at this beginning point in Houston’s career is featured at the start of the trailer, with Ackie performing the opening lines of the late vocalist’s 1985 hit “How Will I Know” onstage.

Tucci, sporting Davis’ trademark glasses, watches her from the audience. “What’s your name again?” he asks her.

“Whitney Elizabeth Houston.”

From there, iconic moments from Houston’s three decades-spanning career flash by, including her historic performance of the National Anthem at the 1991 Super Bowl. At one point, an interviewer challenges her on her music not being “Black enough,” to which she fiercely replies: “I don’t know how to sing ‘Black,’ and I don’t know how to sing ‘white’ either. I know how to sing.”

“I might have just heard the greatest voice of her generation,” says Tucci’s offscreen voice at the end of the two-minute trailer.

Slated to arrive in theaters Dec. 21, I Wanna Dance with Somebody was directed by Kasi Lemmons and written by Bohemian Rhapsody’s Anthony McCarten. Clive Davis, now 90 years old, served as a producer on the film.

Watch the new trailer for I Wanna Dance with Somebody below.

Adblock test (Why?)

Article From & Read More ( The First Trailer for Upcoming Whitney Houston Biopic ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’ Has Arrived: Watch - Billboard )
https://ift.tt/6vp2DTF
Entertainment

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Elizabeth Hurley says it was a ‘nightmare’ working with Matthew Perry amid actor's addiction - Fox News

Image
Elizabeth Hurley said it was a "nightmare" working with Matthew Perry on their 2002 film "Serving Sara," which was shot at the height of his drug addiction.  The production had to be abruptly shut down because the "Friends" star needed to enter rehab for two months.  Still, the "Royals" actress doesn’t hold it against Perry, who detailed his addiction struggles in his new memoir, "Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing."  Hurley recently told Yahoo! Entertainment it was a "little tough" during the film’s hiatus. But when he returned to filming after two months in rehab he was "fabulous." MATTHEW PERRY REVEALS THE SURPRISING REASON HE DUMPED JULIA ROBERTS   Elizabeth Hurley and Matthew Perry starred in 2002's "Serving Sara" together.  (Noam Galai/Frederick M. Brown) Hurley, who said Perry had to "revoice" everything he shot before rehab , added, "obviously he was having a
Read more

Daisy Edgar-Jones in ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’: Film Review - Hollywood Reporter

Image
Where the Crawdads Sing is the kind of tedious moral fantasy that fuels America’s misguided idealism. It’s an attempt at a complex tale about rejection, difference and survival. But the film, like the novel it’s based on, skirts the issues — of race, gender and class — that would texture its narrative and strengthen its broad thesis, resulting in a story that says more about how whiteness operates in a society allergic to interdependence than it does about how communities fail young people. Directed by Olivia Newman ( First Match ), the film adaptation of Delia Owens’ popular and controversial novel of the same name tells the remarkable tale of a shy, reclusive girl raised in the marshes of North Carolina who finds herself embroiled in a grisly police investigation. Her name is Kya ( Daisy Edgar-Jones of Normal People , Fresh and Under the Banner of Heaven ), but to those in the neighboring town, whose residents abhor her, she is known simply as “Marsh Girl.” The account of her
Read more