Selection stories that Oscar winner Barry Jenkins will direct A24’s “Be My Baby,” a biographical drama about Ronnie Spector.
Zendaya, who will painting the ’60s music icon, has been hooked up to the mission since 2020. Dave Kajganich has been tapped to write down the unique screenplay.
“Be My Child” marks one other collaboration for Jenkins and A24 after “Moonlight” and Sundance favourite “Sorry, Child” (which Jenkins served as a producer). The movie additionally reunites Zendaya with A24, a producer on “Euphoria” and the upcoming romantic comedy “The Drama” with Robert Pattinson.
Spector selected Zendaya because the actress she wished to painting her in her early years. She grew up in Spanish Harlem and began the woman group The Ronettes along with her older sister Estelle Bennett and their cousin Nedra Talley. They had been signed by famously unstable document producer Phil Spector to his Philles Report label and there that they had their breakthrough hit Be My Child. She married Spector and as she writes within the e-book, it was clear she had made an enormous mistake when she awakened one morning to the sound of bars being put in on the home windows of their mansion. She well fought for the rights to her music within the subsequent divorce, and he or she was ultimately inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame and had a second wind when reprised her most well-known hit in singing a duet with Eddie Cash on Take Me Residence Tonight.
A24 will produce together with Marc Platt, Adam Siegel, Mark Itkin, Tom Shelly, and Zendaya. Jonathan Greenfield will govt produce. Earlier than her passing, Spector was an govt producer on the movie and hand-selected Zendaya to play her. Adele Romanski and Mark Ceryak, Jenkin’s companions at Pastel, may also be becoming a member of as producers.