After eventually enlisting guitarist Ace Frehley and drummer Peter Criss, they’ve finally started their own band named KISS. Shout It Out Loud ( title based on their hit song from 1976’s Destroyer album) is expected to focus on the band’s early beginnings in Queens back when Simmons and Stanley were just two misfit kids who had formed an unlikely friendship. RELATED: Karma Chameleon: Boy George Biopic Moves to Millennium Media Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Rønning ( Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil) have signed on to helm the project with bandleaders and founding members Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley cooperating closely in the production of the film. None of the participants would comment because the deal is not completed.(Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for ABA)įollowing a bidding competition, Deadline brings word that Netflix has entered the final negotiations to acquire the upcoming biographical drama film titled Shout It Out Loud, centering around legendary rock band KISS. The outlet notes that the KISS biopic is currently being fast-tracked to coincide with the band’s final tour, “End of the Road,” which has been delayed by the pandemic but is expected to resume this fall. 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 Lincoln Lawyer': LisaGay Hamilton Joins Netflix Drama Series As Recurring
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