EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime‘s Gloria Gaynor biopic has solid Tony Award winner Joaquina Kalukango (Lawmen: Bass Reeves) within the main function because the Queen of Disco. Lance Gross (Tyler Perry’s Home of Payne) may even star as Gaynor’s husband, Linwood Simon, in I Will Survive: The Gloria Gaynor Story from Robin Roberts Presents.
The film will air in 2025 as a part of the community’s Voices of a Lifetime slate, which options the beforehand introduced titles, Mary J. Blige’s Household Affair and Can You Really feel the Beat: The Lisa Lisa Story.
Moreover, Gaynor will write and report an unique track for the approved biopic that follows her 50-year profession within the music business. “It can chronicle her rise to fame, from her humble beginnings to turning into one of the iconic voices in music historical past,” touts Lifetime.
Alongside together with her new track, I Will Survive will function a lot of her best hits together with the titular monitor launched in 1978 and was written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris. The biopic additionally delves into the deeply private challenges Gaynor confronted, together with overcoming her lengthy and tumultuous marriage to a controlling husband.
The movie reunites government producer Roberts with Kalukango who additionally starred in Roberts’ Emmy Award-nominated film music biopic, Mahalia.
According to Lifetime’s Broader Focus initiative, I Will Survive: The Gloria Gaynor Story is helmed by ladies in key roles and produced by Rock’n Robin Productions with Roberts, Linda Berman, and Gloria Gaynor serving as government producers; Betsy Schechter co-produces. Alicia Ok. Harris directs from a script written by Njeri Brown and Jane Espenson.
