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Spike Lee to direct James Brown biopic

(AP)
Updated: 2006-12-28 09:05



LOS ANGELES - The late "Godfather of Soul" James Brown will rise again,
on screen. Spike Lee has signed on to direct a feature film about the
singer produced by Brian Grazer and Imagine Entertainment, Paramount
Pictures announced Wednesday.

"It's an authorized biography done with the cooperation of Mr. Brown
before his passing," Paramount spokeswoman Nancy Kirkpatrick said without
further comment.

Lee will rewrite a draft by Jezz and John Henry Butterworth, the trade
paper Daily Variety reported Wednesday. The script has been through
several drafts since Steve Baigelman wrote the original. The movie could
be in production by late 2007, Variety said.

"Having known him well, and after spending lots of time with him and
researching his life, it's somehow not surprising that he died on
Christmas Day. He was the ultimate showman, all the way to the end,"
Grazer told Variety on Tuesday.

Grazer did not immediately return messages left by The Associated Press
at his Los Angeles office.

Brown, whose legendary brand of soul and funk influenced hip-hop, disco
and rap, died of congestive heart failure on Christmas morning in Atlanta
at age 73.









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