EXCLUSIVE: In a aggressive state of affairs, Netflix has nabbed a high-profile drama about music and display icon Frank Sinatra. The streamer has closed a sequence improvement deal for the undertaking, which hails from Oscar winner Invoice Condon, Lionsgate Tv, Common Music Group’s Polygram Leisure and Frank Sinatra Enterprises. The sequence, which can characteristic Frank Sinatra’s music and performances, is government produced by his daughter, Tina Sinatra.
Condon (Gods and Monsters, Twilight) is ready to write down and direct the pilot and function showrunner on the undertaking, described because the definitive bio-series on the enduring singer, actor, producer and quintessential celeb of twentieth Century America. Condon is government producing alongside his producing companion Greg Yolen. Tina Sinatra and Bob Finkelstein are government producing by way of Frank Sinatra Enterprises; Michele Anthony, Bruce Resnikoff and David Blackman by way of Polygram, UMG’s movie and tv manufacturing and improvement division; with Jack Morrissey additionally an EP.
The marquee sequence, which was just lately taken out to the premium market, drawing robust curiosity and a number of bids, stems from Lionsgate’s first-look TV take care of UMG, which owns and/or distributes the overwhelming majority of the Frank Sinatra catalogue.
Sinatra’s life has all of it: humble beginnings because the youngster of Italian immigrants in New Jersey; a exceptional music and appearing profession that had its ups and downs, a well-known posse, the Rat Pack; alleged Mafia ties investigated by the FBI; in addition to a love life marked by a string of relationships with a few of Hollywood’s largest stars like Ava Gardner, Mia Farrow, Judy Garland, Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe and Angie Dickinson.
The “New York, New York” crooner was beforehand the topic of the 1992 miniseries Sinatra, through which he was performed by Philip Casnoff, with Marcia Homosexual Harden as Gardner, Gina Gershon as Nancy Barbato Sinatra and Olympia Dukakis as Dolly Sinatra. There additionally had been a long-gestating characteristic biopic within the works with Martin Scorsese on the helm, which finally didn’t take flight after objections from the Sinatra household.
Condon, an Oscar winner for writing Gods and Monsters, has written three musical options, Chicago, which earned him an Oscar nomination, Dreamgirls, which he additionally directed, and international phenom The Best Showman. It was just lately introduced that Condon will likely be directing a movie adaptation of the musical Guys and Dolls, which was beforehand made right into a 1955 film starring Sinatra and Marlon Brando. He’s repped by WME, Nameless Content material and Alexander, Lawrence, Frumes & Labowitz.