Zendaya and Barry Jenkins are teaming up for a new biopic. The two are set to collaborate on a movie about music legend Ronnie Spector. Jenkins will direct the biopic, with Zendaya to play the American songstress who co-founded and fronted the 1960s girl group the Ronettes.
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00:00Zendaya and Barry Jenkins are teaming up for a new biopic.
00:04The two are set to collaborate on a movie about music legend Ronnie Spector.
00:10Jenkins will direct the biopic with Zendaya to play the American songstress, who co-founded
00:15and fronted the 1960s girl group the Ronettes.
00:18Spector became popular, along with the Ronettes, for songs like Be My Baby and Walking in the
00:23Rain.
00:24The film will take a look at what the singer's life with the troubled producer Phil Spector
00:28felt like, rather than a traditional career trajectory biopic.
00:32Spector died in January of 2022 at the age of 78, after a brief battle with cancer.
00:37The Ronettes, assisted by songwriting and producing help from Phil Spector, turned them
00:42into one of the premier acts of the girl group era, as they toured England with the Rolling
00:46Stones and befriended the Beatles.
00:49Spector married Ronnie in 1968, however, her 1990 autobiography Be My Baby, How I Survived
00:55Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness, tells the story of the abuse she suffered.
00:59The couple divorced in 1974.
01:02Phil Spector was sent to prison in 2009 for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson and died
01:07in 2020.
01:08No word yet on a production or a potential release date.
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