I Wanna Dance With Somebody Is Here to Belt Its Way to the Oscars



Clock strikes upon the hour, and the pursuing Oscar-bait biopic is astir close here. This yr, it’s I Wanna Dance With Somebody, the modern situation to consciousness connected Whitney Houston (after Angela Bassett’s Lifetime movie Whitney). A trailer gives our archetypal look astatine BAFTA victor Naomi Ackie arsenic Houston and Stanley Tucci arsenic way mogul Clive Davis — who’s additionally generating the movie and handpicked Tucci to represent him. The movie follows from Houston’s find by mode of Davis to her immense popular fulfillment, promising “the Whitney you ne'er knew” … while, arsenic a minimum successful the trailer, usually showing Houston connected measurement by measurement bigger stages. The trendy trailer introduces a fewer conflict to this story, displaying Houston protecting herself arsenic a Black creator and arguing with her begetter implicit her career. And, sure, singing “I Will Always Love You.” Hey, if there’s each assemblage we tin judge arsenic existent with to present an fantabulous tune biopic, it’s Bohemian Rhapsody writer Anthony McCarten, right? Right?? I Wanna Dance, directed by means of Kasi Lemmons, is retired December 21.

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