Deadline is exclusively reporting that Nick Jonas is near closed on a deal to star as KISS lead singer, Paul Stanley, in Shout It Out Loud, the McG-directed film about the formation of the venerable hard rock band in the 1970s. The film will go into production at the end of the year or in early 2026, with STX fully financing. The most recent draft is by Darren Lemke.
Says Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr, “I’m told that Jonas will do his own singing, and he’ll need time to train to replicate the jet-engine vocals of Stanley. Besides headlining in the sibling band The Jonas Brothers, Jonas has also proven his chops onscreen. His rise began with the 2016 toxic masculinity hazing drama Goat. He shone in the MMA series Kingdom, as a young gay man who grows up in a family of fighters and has to hide his sexuality from a domineering father.
“Jonas grew up on the Broadway stage in numerous musicals, including starring turns in Les Miserables, Hairspray and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and he played singer Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys Live. His screen credits also include Jumanji and The Good Half, and he will co-star opposite Paul Rudd in the John Carney-directed Power Ballad for Lionsgate.
“Shout it Out Loud focuses on the formation of the ‘70s glitter rock band. Stanley hardly fit the persona of a sex symbol front man as he was growing up. “I was deaf in one ear and had a slight deformity that made me look different,” Stanley once said. “I was this short, fat kid, and music became my salvation, a place to hide and dream. And when I played music, there were always girls around.”
“McG is zeroing in on a star to play Gene Simmons, the fire-breathing, blood-dripping, growly voiced bass player who formed the band with Stanley. His compulsion to take a rock and roll path also had a lot to do with girls.”
Read the full report at Deadline.com.
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Says Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr, “I’m told that Jonas will do his own singing, and he’ll need time to train to replicate the jet-engine vocals of Stanley. Besides headlining in the sibling band The Jonas Brothers, Jonas has also proven his chops onscreen. His rise began with the 2016 toxic masculinity hazing drama Goat. He shone in the MMA series Kingdom, as a young gay man who grows up in a family of fighters and has to hide his sexuality from a domineering father.
“Jonas grew up on the Broadway stage in numerous musicals, including starring turns in Les Miserables, Hairspray and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and he played singer Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys Live. His screen credits also include Jumanji and The Good Half, and he will co-star opposite Paul Rudd in the John Carney-directed Power Ballad for Lionsgate.
“Shout it Out Loud focuses on the formation of the ‘70s glitter rock band. Stanley hardly fit the persona of a sex symbol front man as he was growing up. “I was deaf in one ear and had a slight deformity that made me look different,” Stanley once said. “I was this short, fat kid, and music became my salvation, a place to hide and dream. And when I played music, there were always girls around.”
“McG is zeroing in on a star to play Gene Simmons, the fire-breathing, blood-dripping, growly voiced bass player who formed the band with Stanley. His compulsion to take a rock and roll path also had a lot to do with girls.”
Read the full report at Deadline.com.
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