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*Samuel Jackson is leading the all-star ensemble cast of the Neil Bogart story, which tells the rags to riches journey of the legendary record executive, Deadline reports.
Written and to be directed by Bofart’s son, Timothy Scott Bogart, “Spinning Gold” will chronicle the rise of Bogart’s Casablanca Records in the ’70s, home of music idols Donna Summer, Parliament, KISS, Village People, Bill Withers, Curtis Mayfield, The Isley Brothers and Gladys Knight.
Bogart died in 1982 of cancer and lymphoma at age 39.
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Deadline shared a breakdown of the cast:
Tony-nominated Broadway actor Jeremy Jordan will star as Bogart, Michelle Monaghan plays Bogart’s wife Beth, Jackson plays Parliament leader George Clinton, Kenan Thompson plays Motown’s Berry Gordy, Jason Isaacs plays Al Bogart (the record producer’s father), Jason Derulo plays Ron Isley of the Isley Brothers, Jay Pharoah plays WBLS radio DJ Frankie Crocker, D.L. Hughley plays Parliament’s Bootsy Collins, 11-time Grammy nominee Jazmine Sullivan plays Gladys Knight, Steven Strait and X Ambassadors’ Sam Harris play respective KISS leaders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, Neil Patrick Harris plays KISS co-manager Bill Aucoin.
Casting has yet to be announced for Donna Summer.
Timothy Scott said, “When I ask people who were around my father what it was like, they inevitably say a variation of the same thing. That is, ‘I don’t know how I SURVIVED it or if I would do it again, but I had the greatest f*cking time of my life.’ That is the compass of the movie – a story of an enormously tightknit group that made magic happen, who believed in their dreams and made them come true.”
Production on “Spinning Gold” will begin July 16 in Montreal.
