Rønning is repped by UTA and Brillstein Entertainment Partners. There is every reason to imagine Netflix and KISS will use the synergy of a big rock biopic to memorialize their final days on stage, more than 50 years after Simmons and Stanley first got together. The band is in the midst of its “End of the Road Tour,” which has been slowed by the pandemic, but picks back up in the fall and included a loud New Year’s Eve concert in Dubai. ![]() 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, Doc McGhee through his McGee Entertainment (he is KISS’ longtime manager), Rønning and KISS’ Simmons and Stanley. KISS has sold more than 100 million records, has 30 Gold and 14 Platinum albums, and they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014. Their perseverance paid off with KISS Alive! a mega-selling live album that for a time saved Casablanca Records and made them a top-selling and global touring band. At an early downtown date, they heard snickers from their glam counterparts “until we plugged in and played, and then everyone’s mouths hung open,” Simmons said. “All the glitter-rock bands had wrists as thin as their girlfriends did, and here we looked like linebackers who had raided their girlfriends’ closets,” Stanley said. ![]() “I played him a song that ended up on our first album, and he played three for me, one about soup.” Combining Simmons’ passion for comics with the ’70s Gotham glitter-rock craze, they hit the makeup mirror with a specific goal: “Become the Beatles on steroids.” “Gene felt he, Lennon and McCartney were the only ones who wrote music,” Stanley once said. And when I played music, there were always girls around.”Īlthough their musical motives matched, Simmons and Stanley didn’t instantly mesh when they met. “I was this short, fat kid, and music became my salvation, a place to hide and dream. ![]() “I was deaf in one ear and had a slight deformity that made me look different,” Stanley said. Stanley, the lead singer with the jet-engine vocals, wasn’t always sex-symbol material. ‘Terror In Tinseltown’: Mötley Crüe Manager & Exec Producer Allen Kovac On ‘The Dirt’s 18-Year Journey To Screen “It occurred to me this was better than religion. “I remember walking out onto the street, seeing this Spanish girl jumping rope across the street, and staring at her long black hair slapping against this great butt,” he once said. Picture the fire-breathing, blood-dripping demonic and growly voiced bass player Simmons at age 12, when he was a Hasidic Orthodox Jew from Israel who found a new faith one fateful day while exiting the yeshiva. The tour is now expected to continue well into 2022.'The Lincoln Lawyer': LisaGay Hamilton Joins Netflix Drama Series As Recurring The band hopes the film will be released before the 'End of the Road' tour wraps up. Kiss frontman Paul Stanley confirmed in 2019 that the band had fielded numerous offers for a biopic after the success of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, Mötley Crüe's The Dirt and Elton John's Rocketman. It's being directed by Joachim Rønning.Ĭasting should begin around Thanksgiving, McGhee said. McGhee also noted that the film, titled Shout It Out Loud, is being produced by Mark Canton. It'll be a theatrical release, then Netflix." So it's 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. "And the script is about the first four years of Kiss. "Actually, we have a script that's completely done," he said. McGhee addressed the status of the film project in a recent conversation with Talking Metal. KISS's upcoming biopic will focus on the trials of the band's first four years, according to the band's longtime manager Doc McGhee.
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