Disco is alive and well, as Paramount has purchased the life rights to the family estate of The Bee Gees’ Maurice, Robin and Barry Gibb, and the studio in the works on a music biopic based on the band’s career, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
Paramount purchased the life rights to the Gibb estate on behalf of “Bohemian Rhapsody” producer Graham King and his GK Films. Sister, the new company from Stacey Snider, Elisabeth Murdoch and “Chernobyl” producer Jane Featherstone, is coming aboard as either a co-producer or a co-financier the film, two other individuals of knowledge told TheWrap.