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A biopic about the late Sammy Davis Jr. has found a home at Paramount Pictures.
According to Deadline, the project is on the development fast track, and will soon be hiring a writer and a director.
The movie will be based in large part on the 1965 memoir Yes I Can: The Story of Sammy Davis, Jr. that he penned with Jane and Burt Boyar.
Lionel Richie, and Davis’ heirs has joined the production team lead by Mike Menchel and Lorenzo di Bonaventura.
Richie was the key to getting all the rights deals done to be able to bring Davis’ story to the masses. “I cannot tell you how excited I am about the signing of the Sammy Davis Jr. project with Paramount,” said Richie. “I knew and loved Sammy dearly.”
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