Deadline is reporting that the story of record executive Neil Bogart will be told in ‘Spinning Gold,’ written and to be directed by Timothy Scott Bogart, son of the late musical idolmaker.
Bogart went from being a dirt-poor Jewish kid from Brooklyn to become a multimillionaire who helped define 70′s pop culture by launching the careers of such superstars as Donna Summer, KISS, Parliament, The Village People, The Isley Brothers, Gladys Knight, Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield on the Casablanca Records label. Bogart died in 1982 at the early age of 39 from cancer and lymphoma.
Bogart’s Boardwalk Entertainment has fully financed the picture with Jessica Martins’ Hero Entertainment, and here is the cast: Samuel L. Jackson plays Parliament leader George Clinton (the Godfather of Funk), Kenan Thompson plays Motown’s Berry Gordy, Jason Isaacs plays Al Bogart (the record producer’s father), Jason Derulo plays Ron Isley of the Isley Brothers, Jay Pharoah plays WBLS radio DJ Frankie Crocker, D.L. Hughley plays Parliament’s Bootsy Collins, 11-time Grammy nominee Jazmine Sullivan plays Gladys Knight, Steven Strait and X Ambassadors’ Sam Harris play KISS leaders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, Neil Patrick Harris plays KISS co-manager Bill Aucoin, and a top young singer is about to be set to play Donna Summer.
Playing Bogart will be Tony nominated Broadway actor Jeremy Jordan, with Michelle Monaghan set to play his wife, Beth. Caitlin Fitzgerald will play Joyce Biawitz, Bogart’s second wife and co-manager of KISS and Donna Summer. Dan Fogler, SNL‘s Chris Redd, and James Wolk also have key roles.
The film is being produced by Laurence Mark, whose musicals include The Greatest Showman and Dreamgirls, Bogart and Martins. Harvey Mason Jr., Evan “Kidd” Bogart, Gary Randall and Wei Zheng are also in producing capacities.
Production will begin July 16 in Montreal
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