The Bee Gees

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Paramount Pictures is teaming with upstart producer/financier Sister and Bohemian Rhapsody producer Graham King to mount a movie about The Bee Gees, the trio whose worldwide sales of over 220 million records established them as one of the biggest selling groups of all time. While Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb first began performing together in the late 1950s, much of their popularity came after they wrote songs for Saturday Night Fever that prolonged the popularity of disco and led to one of the top selling albums ever.

Paramount has purchased the life rights to the Gibb family estate on behalf of GK’s King, and so will be able to use their song classics in the movie. Sister, the venture just launched by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Chernobyl producer Jane Featherstone, will come aboard as either a producing partner or a co-financier.

Paramount just found success making Rocketman, the Dexter Fletcher-directed drama about the rocky formative years of Elton John, a film that had strong performances by Taron Egerton (who sang the signature Elton John hits) and Jamie Bell as Elton’s songwriting partner Bernie Taupin.

Source:Deadline