The Bee Gees (L); Kenneth Branagh.Photo: GAB Archive/Redferns; Anthony Harvey/Getty
TheBee Geesare stayin' alive.
Kenneth Branaghis set to direct a biopic about the pop/soul/disco group, according toThe Hollywood Reporter.
According toVariety, the biopic will follow the beginnings of the trio — Barry, 74, and his twin younger brothersRobinandMauriceGibb — from their modest start to the peak of their fame in the 1960s and 1970s.
Branagh, 60, countsThor,Cinderella(2015) andMurder on the Orient Expressamong his directing credits, and is also known for his acting roles in films likeHarry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsandTenet.
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Buttragedy has also marredtheir personal lives.
TheGibbs' youngest brother, Andy— a singer in his own right — occasionally performed with the group, and saw solo success with his 1976 hit, “I Just Want to Be Your Everything.” But the promising star battled a terrible addiction to cocaine, and his career eventually fizzled. In 1988, at age 30, Andy died from complications owing to years of drug abuse.
Though mourning their little brother, the Bee Gees continued recording and performing, and experienced a late-career comeback with the Top 10 hit “One” in 1989.
But tragedy struck once again in 2003 whenMaurice suffered a heart attack, dyingin Miami at age 53. His funeral was star-studded — good friendMichael Jacksonwas present at the service, riding in the limo with the remaining Gibbs brothers.
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Robin and Barry stopped recording after Maurice’s death, claiming that they were too devastated to continue. And in 2012,Robin died at age 62 after a long battle with cancer.
“Mo was gone in two days,” Barry told theDaily Mailin 2016. “Maybe that’s better than long and tortured, which is what Robin went through. Andy went at 30. All different forms of passing — and, for our mum, devastating.”
Barry never expected to perform again as the sole survivor of the band, admitting, “After Rob died, I just sat moping around thinking that was the end of it and I would just fade away.”
But instead, he joinedColdplayon stage atGlastonburyto massive applause in 2016, and decided to record an album that was released later that year —In the Now, his first solo record in 30 years. (He would then go on to release another,Greenfields.)
As for how was getting through the days without his brothers, he has said he thinks about them every day: “Live in the moment. Grab every moment, because you see what happens.”
source: people.com
