KJ Apa is ready to star in a brand new film about Chic!
The 3000 Footage biopic concerning the band has the 27-year-old Riverdale actor hooked up to star as Bradley Nowell within the movie, with Justin Chon on board to direct, by way of Deadline.
Justin can also be writing the screenplay with Bobby A whole lot, primarily based on Chris Mundy’s unique draft.
Hold studying to seek out out extra…
Unique Chic members Bud Gaugh and Eric Wilson are govt producing together with Bradley’s son Jakob Nowell, who’s now Chic’s lead singer, in addition to widow Troy Nowell on behalf of the late singer’s property.
The Lengthy Seaside ska punk trio got here to prominence with their fusion of parts of reggae, punk, people and hip-hop, with songs like “What I Acquired,” “Santeria,” “Improper Method,” and “Doin’ Time” all through the ’90s. Chic notably didn’t have main mainstream success till their third album launched in 1996, launched two months after Bradley‘s demise as a result of a heroin overdose.
Sources inform Deadline that AJ spent “virtually two years chasing this function as soon as he was conscious of the venture.” And after a number of conferences, together with quite a few self-tapes, producers and executives “realized he was good for the function of Nowell and a suggestion not too long ago adopted after the property signed off on it.”
KJ not too long ago opened up about scenes he didn’t love filming in Riverdale.