Beloved ‘80s Rocker Getting the Biopic Treatment

Bon Jovi is now getting in on the recent biopic action that has swept Hollywood, with Universal Pictures winning a bidding war to finance a feature film about the iconic ’80s rock band. The film will be written by Cody Brotter, who recently wrote the screenplay for upcoming thriller Killing Satoshi, starring Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson. No director has been named to the project yet, and casting has not yet begun for crucial roles including that of frontman Jon Bon Jovi or former guitarist Richie Sambora, who left the group in 2013. Bon Jovi was formed in New Jersey in 1983,and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018. The movie joins a growing number of musician-focused biopics released in recent years, including 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody about Queen, 2019’s Rocketman about the life of Elton John, Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, the Timothée Chalamet-led Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, or last year’s Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, which focused on the creation of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska. Other musical biopics currently in development include Sam Mendes’ four interconnected Beatles films starring Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson, Joseph Quinn and Barry Keoghan as the Fab Four.


















