Barry Jenkins teams up with Zendaya for a biopic on Ronnie Spector

The Oscar -winning director is also associated with A24 for this biopic in preparation for years on the rock singer of “Be My Baby”.

It has been several years since the project of a Biopic on artist Ronnie Spectornée Veronica Bennett, is in the boxes. The founder of the rock group Ronettes had Chosen during her lifetime the actress Zendaya To embody her character on the screen, before she died of cancer in 2022. The title of the film, Be my baby resumes the title of one of the flagship tubes of the group released in 1963.

The project seems to be finally on the right track: Deadline just announced Barry Jenkins At the controls of the feature film. The director has experienced a good ascent since Moonlight,, Oscar -winning film in 2017 And a real favorite of festivals. This year, Jenkins has come back in force with MUFASA: The Lion Kingwhich has been triumphing at the box office since its launch. With Be my babythe African-American filmmaker signs A new collaboration with A24 After Moonlight And Sorry, baby, The favorite of the following this year film Film Festival of which Jerkins is the producer.

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Be my baby also brings together Zendaya and A24, producers of the series Euphoria – whose third season is currently being produced – but also of the next awaited Romcom The Dramabringing together the actress and Robert Pattinson. This musical biopic completes the roles of the Hollywood rising star. If Zendaya is a very good actress, she also has a talent for singing. She came out A first album from 2013 and put his voice on several trailerin particular with the artist Labrinth, composer of the music of the series Euphoria.

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After DeadlineBarry Jenkins would have agreed with Ronnie Spector for the film focuses on his marriage to Phil Spectormusic producer of the Ronettes. This painful period plunged the artist in alcoholism and depressionbecause of the many violence that her husband has made him undergo. Phil Spector was sentenced to 19 years in prison in 2009 for the murder of the actress Lana Clarkson and died there in 2021. The film is also inspired Memoirs that the singer wrote with Vince Waldron: Be my babysubtitled “How I survived mascara, miniskirts and madness, or my life as a fabulous ronette”.

While Zendaya is on a multitude of projects – Euphoria, Spiderman 4, the Odyssey by Christopher Nolan, Shrek 5without forgetting the rest of Dune – We can’t wait to see how she will play the one we nicknamed the “Original bad girl from rock and roll”.