Good occasions by no means appeared so good within the first trailer for “Track Sung Blue,” Craig Brewer‘s new inspiring romance drama starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson as members of a Neil Diamond tribute band who fall in love. Better of all — apart from Jackman’s lengthy jet-black hair in tribute to Diamond — it’s based mostly on a real story.
Brewer has charmed audiences in recent times with “Dolemite Is My Identify” and “Coming 2 America,” although his first massive breakout hit was the 2005 Oscar-winner “Hustle & Movement.” Tales about massive personalities, typically set on the earth of leisure, are his specialty, and he each writes and directs “Track Sung Blue.” The Focus Options launch appears a major candidate to be a crowdpleaser, and doable awards contender, when it releases December 25.
What’s particularly thrilling about “Track Sung Blue” is that it’s a jukebox musical, taking part in most of the greatest hits from Diamond’s extraordinary catalogue of songs, however it additionally tells an unique story. In any case, Diamond followers already acquired a simple biopic of the singer-songwriter from the Broadway (and nationwide touring) stage manufacturing of “A Lovely Noise.” This goes in a unique route, to point out how the facility of an artist’s songbook can add to the lives of two individuals who admire it deeply. Assume type of like Gurinder Chadha’s tribute to Bruce Springsteen fandom, “Blinded by the Mild.”
It’s additionally a welcome alternative to listen to Jackman sing onscreen, and convey to bear the showmanship that audiences have loved from him on Broadway (most lately in “The Music Man”) in addition to in motion pictures like “The Biggest Showman.” Simply don’t name Jackman’s character “a Neil Diamond impersonator.” As Hudson’s character places it, he’s extra of a “Neil Diamond interpreter.” They’re joined within the forged by Michael Imperioli, Ella Anderson, King Princess, Mustafa Shakir, and Hudson Hensley, with Fisher Stevens and Jim Belushi.
Hey, if simply this description has you singing “play it now! / play it now! / play it now!/ play it now!” like every Diamond fan, effectively, go forward, play it now and watch the trailer beneath.
Focus Options will launch “Track Sung Blue” in theaters nationwide on December 25.