In movie information we didn’t see coming, pop star Nick Jonas will play KISS singer-guitarist Paul Stanley within the upcoming biopic Shout It Out Loud.
Deadline experiences that the Jonas Brothers singer-guitarist has been forged because the KISS legend, and can do his personal singing within the film.
The movie is being directed by McG, recognized for helming varied music movies for artists like Korn, The Offspring, Sugar Ray, and Elegant, as effectively big-screen flicks corresponding to Charlie’s Angels and Terminator Salvation, amongst others.
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In accordance with Deadline, McG can also be seeking to forged a big-name actor to play KISS singer-bassist Gene Simmons, whereas there’s no phrase but on who will painting guitarist Ace Frehley and drummer Peter Criss.
Again in 2023, it was reported that Shout It Out Loud could be launched on Netflix in 2024, whereas information of the movie first broke a pair years earlier in 2021. Now, Deadline experiences that the film will first go into manufacturing on the finish of this 12 months or in early 2026, that means it in all probability gained’t be launched till late 2026 and even 2027.
The newest script is being dealt with by Darren Lemke, a screenwriter who’s labored on Shrek Eternally After, Goosebumps, Kung Fu Panda 4, and different movies.
Shout It Out Loud will give attention to the formation and early days of KISS, who shaped in New York Metropolis within the early ’70s, and went on to be some of the influential acts in rock historical past.
Whereas he’s greatest often known as a member of Jonas Brothers, Nick Jonas has been increase a formidable performing résumé, showing in Evening on the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian and a few Jumanji movies, in addition to being an everyday on the TV sequence Kingdom, amongst different roles.
KISS, in the meantime, retired from touring on the finish of 2023, however not too long ago introduced that members of the band will carry out unmasked at a fan conference in Las Vegas happening in November of this 12 months. Hear Gene Simmons on a current episode of Consequence‘s Kyle Meredith With… podcast beneath.