Paramount Pictures is reportedly moving ahead with a biopic about the life of singer Sammy Davis Jr. and have tapped Charles Murray (“Sons of Anarchy,” “Luke Cage”) to pen the script.
Murray was set to pen the film after producer Mike Menchel found out he had read practically everything ever written on the famed Rat Pack singer with his 1965 memoir “Yes I Can” among others serving as the source material.
The film will follow the artist and activist from Vaudeville in the Will Mastin Trio to the integrated infantry with Southern whites in WWII to his big break in the short film “Sweet and Low” and his chance meeting with Frank Sinatra.
Murray says the man’s life “was plenty provocative, a mix of out-sized talent and ambition, courage and defiance, with a need to constantly prove his worth at all time that led to a lot of loneliness.”
Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Lionel Richie will produce.
Source: Deadline
