Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson are set to star in Music Sung Blue, a brand new movie a couple of Neil Diamond tribute band.
The film is known as after a 1972 tune by the veteran singer-songwriter, and might be directed by Craig Brewer, identified for helming Hustle & Circulate, Black Snake Moan and Dolemite Is My Identify.
Jackman and Hudson will play real-life Milwaukee couple Mike and Claire Sardina, two downtrodden musicians who set up a neighborhood popularity as Lightning & Thunder, a tribute act to Diamond.
The movie might be based mostly on Greg Kohs’ 2008 documentary of the identical identify, and also will star The Sopranos’ Michael Imperioli, Succession’s Fisher Stevens and Jim Belushi.
Jackman starred in Deadpool & Wolverine earlier this 12 months, the second-highest grossing movie of 2024 thus far (behind Inside Out 2). In July, he shared his response to a pivotal struggle scene within the film. In a clip of him watching the scene on a laptop computer on a airplane, he’s visibly giddy with glee, grinning and slapping his chest and combating again bursts of laughter.
In the meantime, final 12 months, Diamond opened up about dwelling with Parkinson’s illness, a situation he was identified with in 2018. He admitted he was in denial about it for “the primary 12 months or two”.
“I don’t prefer it however that is me,” he mentioned on the time. “That is what I’ve to just accept. And I’m prepared to do it. Okay, so that is the hand that God’s given me, and I’ve to make the most effective of it, and so I’m.”
He additionally spoke on the time about his expertise of watching A Lovely Noise, the Broadway musical based mostly on the story of his life. “It was all fairly arduous,” he mentioned. “I used to be somewhat embarrassed. I used to be flattered. Being came upon is the scariest factor you possibly can hope, as a result of all of us have a façade. And the reality be identified to all of ’em. I’m not some huge star. I’m simply me.”
