Sam Rockwell is in talks to join the Amazon Studios biopic on of the country and western singer Merle Haggard.
Rockwell is up for the role of Haggard and will do his own singing of Haggard’s standards.
Based on the Haggard memoir ‘Sing Me Back Home’ the film will be set in the 60s’ and will focus heavily on Merle’s complicated love affair with singer Bonnie Owens – his singing partner and eventual wife. It will also focus on his tumultuous rise from an inmate who served three years at San Quentin – where he was among the prisoners who watched the first prison performance of Johnny Cash in a life-changing moment – to the clubs in vBakersfield hometown, to Capitol Records in Los Angeles.
Robbin Bissell will direct and co-write the script with Merle’s widow Theresa Haggard. Bissell and Haggard will also produce.
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Rockwell is up for the role of Haggard and will do his own singing of Haggard’s standards.
Based on the Haggard memoir ‘Sing Me Back Home’ the film will be set in the 60s’ and will focus heavily on Merle’s complicated love affair with singer Bonnie Owens – his singing partner and eventual wife. It will also focus on his tumultuous rise from an inmate who served three years at San Quentin – where he was among the prisoners who watched the first prison performance of Johnny Cash in a life-changing moment – to the clubs in vBakersfield hometown, to Capitol Records in Los Angeles.
Robbin Bissell will direct and co-write the script with Merle’s widow Theresa Haggard. Bissell and Haggard will also produce.
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- 7/28/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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Dracula: Prince of Darkness Poster by Vice Press: Press Release: “Vice...
Dark Sails’ Dark Moon Clive Barker Shirt: “From the mind of Clive Barker comes this exclusive shirt only available through Dark Sails. “Dark Moon” is an original work of art by the master of horror himself. Light weight, 100% ring spun combed cotton.
Color: Only available in black.
Back: “You just have to trust your own madness” – Clive Barker.
Men’s V-Neck and Women’s Scoop Neck available.
Dark Moon from Clive Barker T-Shirt.
$28.00.”
To learn more about this Clive Barker shirt, visit:
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Dracula: Prince of Darkness Poster by Vice Press: Press Release: “Vice...
- 5/2/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
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