The high-profile solid for Common Footage‘ forthcoming musical from Michel Gondry and Pharrell Williams has simply been kicked up an octave with the addition of Janelle Monáe.
Monáe has signed on to affix the solid of the coming-of-age interval characteristic that’s presently untitled. The movie’s beforehand confirmed castmembers embody Kelvin Harrison Jr., Halle Bailey, Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph, Brian Tyree Henry and Missy Elliott.
The challenge is ready in Virginia Seaside in the course of the summer time of 1977 and impressed by Atlantis Residences, the neighborhood the place Williams grew up. Gondry directs the musical from a script by Martin Hynes and Steven Levenson.
Producers embody Williams and Mimi Valdés for I Am Different, alongside Gil Netter for Gil Netter Productions. Overseeing the film for Common are senior vp of manufacturing growth Ryan Jones and director of manufacturing growth Christine Solar.
Monáe’s earlier movie credit embody Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller, Antebellum, Hidden Figures and Moonlight, and she or he had a job within the tv sequence Homecoming. She can be a profitable recording artist, along with her fourth studio album, The Age of Pleasure, touchdown a nomination for album of the 12 months at this 12 months’s Grammys. Monáe is repped by WME, ID PR, Wondaland Administration, Ziffren Brittenham and Johnson Shapiro.
Gondry has helmed such scripted options as Everlasting Sunshine of the Spotless Thoughts, The Science of Sleep, Be Type Rewind and The Inexperienced Hornet, together with the music-focused documentary Dave Chappelle’s Block Social gathering. The filmmaker gained an Oscar for his work on the script for Everlasting Sunshine of the Spotless Thoughts.