EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Paramount has bought the pitch Love In Vain, an unconventional biopic centering around Blues music pioneer Robert Johnson. Peter Ramsey, after directing the Oscar-and-Golden…
are producing. The trio are also producing and in development on the untitled Sammy Davis Jr. biopic.
Johnson’s singing, guitar playing and songwriting skills during the 1930s later influenced a generation of musicians including Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton and Robert Plant. The Mississippi native had a poorly documented life and death, living a short life until the age of 27. In fact, some record producers such as John Hammond were unaware that Johnson had even died; Hammond trying to seek the singer out for a Carnegie Hall concert following Johnson’s death.
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