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[Tom Morrow]

DreamWorks Gershwin biography

DreamWorks cues up Gershwin Doug Wright wrote script for composer biopic Variety DreamWorks is tuning up a biopic on composer George Gershwin. The company has picked up a screenplay by Memoirs of a Geisha scribe Doug Wright about the iconic musician. Marc Platt (Wanted) is producing alongside singer and pianist Michael Feinstein. DreamWorks declined comment on the project. Insiders say deal is near complete, and DreamWorks plans to develop project in the vein of a Martin Luther King Jr. biopic on which the company — headed by Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider — began work in May after inking a deal with the King estate. Story will span Gershwin's life, from his humble beginnings in Brooklyn as the child of Russian immigrants to his early death in Hollywood in 1937 at age 38. During his career, he wrote more than a dozen Broadway shows with his older brother Ira Gershwin. His "Rhapsody in Blue" and "An American in Paris" remain among the most recognizable musical works throughout the world. Feinstein is an expert on Gershwin. Early in his career, he worked for Ira Gershwin, archiving the works of Ira and George. by Tatiana Siegel complete article

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[alyx92]

Yay!!!! I love gershwin!!!

[stevo505]

Rhapsody in blue! Yes!

[Wedbliss]

I would love to see this movie.

Gershwin created a large number of piano rolls so that his actual playing could be reproduced on player pianos. A while back they were digitized and recorded and they sound great. I would be cool if these recordings could be used in the film, Gershwin playing in his own bio-pic. Clint Eastwood did something simliar in the movie Bird where he took recordings of Charlie Parker alto solos, recorded new backing tracks and put them in the sound track.