Carole king movie 2024
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Everything We Know About the Beautiful Movie Musical
Beautiful, the musical about Carole King's early life and career featuring her music, is becoming a film. The Broadway showed starred Jesse Mueller as King—she won the Tony Award for best leading actress in a musical for the role. Now, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical will make the leap from stage to the big screen. Here's everything we know about the movie musical so far.
Daisy Edgar-Jones will star as Carole King.
"Daisy has a spirit and energy that I recognized as myself when I was younger. She’s a tremendous talent and I know she’s going to give a great performance," King told Variety.
Though King approves of Edgar-Jones's casting, many on Twitter pointed out that the role of King, a Jewish woman, should be played by a Jewish actress. "I love Daisy, but they couldn't find ONE musically and theatrically gifted Jewish American woman to portray this iconic Jewish American woman?" tweeted Emma Kantor.
"Carole King is a Jewish icon and once again we’re getting a non-Jew playing a J
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Daisy Edgar-Jones to Play Carole King in ‘Beautiful’ Musical Biopic, Directed by Lisa Cholodenko (EXCLUSIVE)
Daisy Edgar-Jones has landed the plum role of Carole King in Sony’s upcoming film adaptation of the stage musical “Beautiful,” a package as high-profile as it is pedigreed.
“Daisy has a spirit and energy that I recognized as myself when I was younger. She’s a tremendous talent and I know she’s going to give a great performance,” King told Variety.
Jones is familiar to Sony, having starred in the studio’s box office winner “Where The Crawdads Sing.” She will be directed in “Beautiful” by Academy Award nominee Lisa Cholodenko (“The Kids Are All Right”).
Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg, who co-wrote “Kids Are All Right” together, recently completed their own pass on the “Beautiful” script, which is currently in development. Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman of Playtone will produce the film with Paul Blake, who also produced the stage show. Sherry Kondor,
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The film adaptation will be produced by Oscar winner Tom Hanks and his business partner Gary Goetzman as well as Paul Blake, who is the lead producer of the Broadway musical, which continues at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.
In a statement Michael De Luca, Sony's president of production, said, "Theatrical audiences both on Broadway and in the West End have responded to Beautiful, not only to relive Carole King's timeless classics, but to experience the ways they illustrate her triumphant and joyful life story. We’re thrilled to be bringing this inspiring and powerful musical to movie audiences everywhere."
The motion picture company will have the rights to King's songbook as well as those of her collaborators Gerry Goffin, Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann.
A timeline for the film has not been announced.
With a book by Tony and Academy Award nominee Douglas McGrath, direction by Marc Bruni and choreography by Josh Prince, Beautiful features an array of beloved songs written by Gerry Goffin/Carole King and Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil. "Long before she was Carole King, chart-toppin
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