The trailer for Whitney Houston's highly anticipated biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody, titled after her genre-defining hit song of the same name, has been released. Throughout her life, Whitney Houston worked tirelessly to use her voice for what she believed to be good, to change the hearts of so many, and to triumphantly represent women around the world with her passion for music. stage and music. Her life was also filled with many facets that didn't surface until years after her death, and the film will surely explore them, but exactly how remains unclear as yet.
Fans are excited to see Houston's life portrayed on the big screen. As an enigmatic figure in pop culture who has defined decades of music, film, and acting, this biopic is long overdue. I Wanna Dance With Somebody comes from Sony Pictures and the writer of Bohemian Rhapsody. Naomi Ackie from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will play Houston and Kasi Lemmons will direct. Ashton Sanders will co-star as Bobby Brown, Nafessa Williams as Robyn Crawford, Tamara Tunie as Cissy Houston, and Bria Danielle Singleton as Bobbi Kristina Houston. The film will also star Stanley Tucci, Daniel Washington, and Clarke Peters.
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Writer: Anthony McCarten
Stars: Stanley Tucci, Naomi Ackie, Tamara Tunie
Whitney Houston was born in Newark, New Jersey, the first cousin of singer Dionne Warwick, goddaughter of Darlene Love, and honorary niece of Aretha Franklin. Her mother, Cissy, taught her to sing, encouraged her to continue singing in the church choir, and even took her to recording studios with her, where she met Franklin. Houston occasionally performed on stage with her mother's musical group, The Sweet Temptations, in nightclubs.
Houston was also a fan of Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight, and Roberta Flack. In many ways, Whitney Houston is the culmination of decades of strong role models of talented women making history in the music industry. Houston was eventually discovered as a prominent fashion model and modeled for various magazines. Following this, she began presentations with high-profile managers and released her debut musical album Whitney Houston in 1985.
Since then, Houston has been a powerful voice for women's empowerment. It's the soundtrack to so many seminal achievements in pop culture and real life, from the exercise montage in Bridget Jones's diary, set to "I'm Every Woman," to Houston's iconic national anthem at Superbowl XXV. during the controversial Persian Gulf War. . Her singing of her anthem is shown in Top Gun: Maverick quality in the trailer for the biopic.
According to the I Wanna Dance With Somebody trailer, the film will chart her rise from singer of hers with The Sweet Temptations, to fashion icon, to an international voice for women. The movie doesn't reveal too many details and is entirely in a triumphant tone. There is much to speculate about now as to what exactly she will portray in the movie of her life. We can say that it begins with Houston's first season of solo singing to cover her mother, who has a sore throat and has to retire from the show. This trailer footage seems to lead Stanley Tucci, who plays real-life record producer Clive Davis, to discover his talent in the club audience that night.
The trailer also briefly teases her marriage to Bobby Brown and, at some point, will introduce her daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, who tragically passed away shortly after her mother's death. It will be exciting to potentially see performances from Houston's sensational film The Bodyguard, which is said to have had a profound impact on the singer-actress and her legacy, even forging a lifelong friendship with co-star Kevin Costner.
This movie can do a lot to solidify and clarify Whitney Houston's legacy. From the trailer, the production team is committed to portraying her unwavering optimism, her energy, her passion for her work, unparalleled glamor and private life. The biopic also seeks to popularize the relationship between Houston and Robyn Crawford. Crawford has said since Houston's death that her relationship was more than platonic at one point until Houston signed her first record deal and broke that level of intimacy within the relationship.
Whitney Houston gave it all to women and defined a timelessly influential era of pop culture. We are so excited to celebrate her glorious triumphs throughout her life in theaters on December 21, 2022.