But as the casting process goes on, I'll certainly be there." And I'm the first to say I'm not up on a lot of them. Well, those guys are in their 50s or 60s, so you're talking about another generation of actors. He continued, "When people get asked these kinds of questions, they'll say, 'Oh, Brad Pitt,' or this one or that one. "To be accurate in terms of age," Stanley explained in 2021, "we are looking at actors in their early 20s." From what Stanley has said, we know they will choose young actors. Various sources have floated their own fantasy cast lists. We don't yet know what actors will portray the KISS members in the Netflix biopic. Basically, it's before they were famous." KISS Netflix Movie Cast … And the script is about the first four years of KISS. In a 2021 interview, McGhee explained, "Mark Canton, who is a very, very powerful producer and production company who has the TV series Power and Ghost and all that stuff, and he was a president of Sony and all that, he's done 300 films - a really, really great guy - his team and Universal Music and ourselves have partnered up with Joachim Rønning, who is a very sought-after director. He did Maleficent 2, and he's not some hack." "You get one chance to do it, and I would rather not do it than do it half-assed or poorly. "We really waited until we felt comfortable,“ he added. "The script was really good," Stanley said that year after confirming the film's production in a tweet. The KISS project was said to be getting the fast track as a co-production between Atmosphere Entertainment and Universal Music Group through film producers Mark Canton (Atmosphere), Leigh Ann Burton (Opus 7), Courtney Solomon, David Blackman and Jody Gerson (Universal Music), as well as McGhee, Stanley, Simmons and the director of Shout It Out Loud, Joachim Rønning ( Kon-Tiki, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales).ĭorothy Canton and David Hopwood signed on as executive producers to helm the Shout It Out Loud script composed by Ole Sanders, who worked with Simmons and Stanley after an early draft by William Blake Herron. In 2021, Deadline revealed the movie deal and cited an anticipation for success that could equal Bohemian Rhapsody, the 2018 Queen biopic. With McGee's latest confirmation, a Netflix release for Shout It Out Loud appears to be set in stone. Two years ago, Netflix was reported to be in a bidding war to release the KISS biopic. And that'll come in '24." (via Blabbermouth) How KISS Made the Netflix Deal "We're just starting it now," he said in March. The KISS biopic, called Shout It Out Loud after the band's 1976 Destroyer track, will be coming out in 2024, according to McGhee. READ MORE: KISS Debunk Long-Rumored Satanic Acronym Stands for Their Band Name KISS Biopic Release Date It will focus on the early days of KISS’ Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons. The movie is expected to dramatically re-enact KISS’ story in a way similar to past rock biopics such as 2010’s The Runaways or the 2019 Motley Crue portrayal, The Dirt. How could I get near that?" The answer to that question will ironically also be the main attraction of the biopic: sequences of KISS's over-the-top theatrics and pyrotechnics as the band rocks massive crowd in their signature stadium-sized concert events.Watch the video down toward the bottom of this post. "It occurred to me this was better than religion. ![]() Indeed the film will be something of a true Americana story, as Simmons goes from being a young Hasidic Orthodox Jew of Israeli background to chasing the American Dream by way of becoming a rock n' roll sex symbol: "I remember walking out onto the street, seeing this Spanish girl jumping rope across the street, and staring at her long black hair slapping against this great butt," Simmons once said. ![]() Trying to set themselves apart from the 'hair' bands of the day, they accented their power chords and pyrotechnics with makeup." As Deadline report, Shout It Out Loud will focus on Simmons and Stanley when they were "two misfit kids from Queens who formed an unlikely friendship, starting KISS after enlisting guitarist Ace Frehley and drummer Peter Criss.
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