Boy George's life to be turned into a Hollywood film... after Elton John's Rocketman and Freddie Mercury's Bohemian Rhapsody
After Freddie Mercury and Elton John, another British rock star is getting a big new Hollywood biopic.
Culture Club frontman Boy George's life will be dramatized for the big screen by MGM, Deadline reported on Wednesday.
It will be produced by Kevin King Templeton, who worked on Creed and Grudge match, and Boy George's manager Paul Kemsley, who stars in The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alongside his wife Dorit.
It will be written and directed by Sacha Gervasi, who last tried his hand at a celebrity biopic with the well-received HBO film My Dinner With Herve.
Next on the bill: Culture Club frontman Boy George's life will be dramatized for the big screen by MGM, Deadline reported on Wednesday
That project starred Peter Dinklage as 3ft 11in actor Herve Villechaize, who starred in the James Bond film The Man With The Golden Gun.
George O'Dowd had a working class Irish Catholic upbringing in Woolwich - his mother Dinah has accused his father Gerry of abuse.
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The son of this troubled home reinvented himself as Boy George and embraced a gender-bending musical persona in London's 1970s and 1980s club scene.
Boy George formed Culture Club as an ethnically diverse band with Jewish drummer Jon Moss, black bassist Mikey Craig and Anglo-Saxon guitarist-keyboardist Roy Hay.
Throwback to 1982: Boy George (second from right) formed Culture Club with (from left) black bassist Mikey Craig, Jewish drummer Jon Moss and white Briton Roy Hay
His tempestuous friendship and romance with Jon became legendary for its squabbles and led to the band's first breakup in 1986.
'Our love, however diseased, was the creative force behind Culture Club,' George shared in Take It Like A Man, his first of two memoirs.
Last October, a month before the reformed Culture Club started another tour, Jon left the band amid a fresh glut of feud rumors.
Boy George also fought a heroin addiction at the height of his fame, getting arrested for possession in 1986 and losing a friend to an overdose in his own home.
Star turn: The Freddie Mercury movie Bohemian Rhapsody became a huge hit this past awards season and scored its star Rami Malek the best actor Academy Award
The Freddie Mercury movie Bohemian Rhapsody became a huge hit this past awards season and scored its star Rami Malek the best actor Academy Award.
Its director Bryan Singer was fired three weeks before the end of the shoot, and has claimed this was because he wanted to postpone the end of filming to attend to 'a gravely ill parent,' but was not allowed to do so.
Bryan, who has denied allegations of sexually abusing minors, is still credited as the director but went noticeably unmentioned in Rami's Oscar speech.
Meanwhile, this Friday will see the release of Rocketman, an Elton John biopic starring Taron Edgerton in the lead role and Game Of Thrones bombshell Richard Madden as the singing star's manager and beau John Reid.
Meanwhile: This Friday will see the release of Rocketman, an Elton John biopic starring Taron Edgerton in the lead role (pictured)
Elton and Boy George briefly clashed over the former's decision to perform with Eminem, who is famous for saying 'f*****', but have since mended fences.
In fact, George was pictured hitting the red carpet for the London premiere of Rocketman at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square last week.
During the feud, Boy George gossiped to the Mirror that David Furnish, Elton's then-beau and now-husband, 'chased me into the toilets, hammered on the door and started yelling about all the good things Elton does for the gay community. Yeah, I said, well, that wasn't one of them, was it?'
MGM themselves are percolating a movie on the life of Aretha Franklin, to be portrayed by Jennifer Hudson, who won an Oscar for her turn in Dreamgirls.
