“End Of The Road” was originally scheduled to conclude on Jin New York City but is now expected to last well into 2022. KISS launched its farewell trek in January 2019 but was forced to put it on hold last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Atmosphere‘s Dorothy Canton and David Hopwood are the executive producers. The film will be produced by Canton through his Atmosphere Entertainment, Leigh Ann Burton through Opus 7, Courtney Solomon, David Blackman and Jody Gerson through Universal Music Group, McGhee through his McGee Entertainment, Rønning, and Simmons and Stanley. “Shout It Out Loud”, which will have close cooperation from bandleaders Stanley and Gene Simmons, will be a co-production of Canton‘s Atmosphere Entertainment and Universal Music Group. I think I’ll learn a lot about their perception of me by who they cast.” It’ll be interesting to see how someone else - be it the casting people or the director - how they view who I am and who they see doing that. But as the casting process goes on, I’ll certainly be there and watching. And I’m the first to say I’m not up on a lot of them. Well, those guys are in their 50s or 60s, so you’re talking about another generation of actors. When people get asked these kinds of questions, they’ll say, ‘Oh, Brad Pitt,’ or this one or that one. Honestly, I don’t know a whole lot of actors in their early 20s. But that will be interesting too.”Īsked which actor he would like to play him in the movie, Stanley said: “And I will tell you this: for casting to be accurate in terms of age, we are looking at actors in their early 20s. He did ‘Maleficent 2’, and he’s not some hack he knows how to make movies. “Look, you get once chance to do it, and I would rather not do it than do it half assed or poorly,” he explained. And we really waited until we felt comfortable. And that’s gonna be really interesting,” he said. “I believe before Thanksgiving we’ll be in the casting.”Įarlier this year, KISS frontman Paul Stanley told Download host Kylie Olsson that the KISS biopic was “definitely happening. “We’re finishing our deal with a couple of distributors in Europe and the U.S., and then we’ll get into casting,” he said. It’ll be a theatrical release, then Netflix.”Īccording to Doc, casting hasn’t started yet. So it’s a very interesting, and I think it’s a well-written movie. “And I think it’s a very interesting look at the formation of KISS, the mindset of how that came about, the social pressure that everybody was in in the ’60s and ’70s that brought something like KISS to the forefront, that it could actually happen. Basically, it’s before they were famous - it was up to Cadillac High, that kind of thing,” referring to the October 1975 concert KISS played in a high school gym in Cadillac, Michigan. And the script is about the first four years of KISS. “ Mark Canton, who is a very, very powerful producer and production company who has the TV series ‘Power’ and ‘Ghost’ and all that stuff, and he was a president of Sony and all that, he’s done 300 films - a really, really great guy - his team and Universal Music and ourselves have partnered up with Joachim Rønning, who is a very sought-after director that did things like ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean’, and ‘Kon-Tiki’ was up for an Academy Award. “Actually, we have a script that’s completely done,” Doc said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). The film, which recently landed at Netflix, will be directed by Joachim Rønning, the Norwegian filmmaker whose credits include “Kon-Tiki”, “Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil” and “Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales”. KISS‘s longtime manager Doc McGhee spoke to Talking Metal about the band’s upcoming biopic “Shout It Out Loud”.
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