The talent that is and was Sam Cooke is about to be brought to the screen and it's one that has been desired for decades.
Sam Cooke's life was cut short by mysterious circumstances that left many friends and family members with unanswered questions and from the looks of things to come, we might finally get some answers.
Via THR,
"Cooke's family members L.C. Cooke and Eugene Jamison will function as consultants on the project, which the producer and the family are seeing as an authorized biopic. Music and film producer Romeo Antonio has made a deal with Cooke's family to develop the movie project, with a script being written by Mary Krell-Oishi
That benefit comes with access to family documents and to people that were important in Cooke's life, not just surviving relatives but people such as Zelda Samuels, who was the singer's assistant. Antonio even did a five-hour on-camera interview with the now 84-year-old.
Antonio is also working with author B.G. Rhule (One More River to Cross: The Redemption of Sam Cooke) on the project.
Cooke's heyday was between 1957 and 1964, when he had 30 top-40 hits and worked with names such as Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye. He also did something unusual for a black recording artist in those times, which was to take control of his own business affairs. After seeing others get rich of his music, he started his own label and owned his own masters and music."
Check out a vintage live performance and see the talent that we will see on the screen soon.
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