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Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield’s ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’

Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield’s “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” a biopic about Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, will likely be launched on Sept. 24, Searchlight introduced on Thursday.

The movie will likely be based mostly on the documentary of the identical title that was directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato from World of Wonder. Abe Sylvia wrote the script for the characteristic. Chastain is producing alongside her producing companion Kelly Carmichael by their Freckle Films manufacturing banner, and Gigi Pritzker and Rachel Shane by their MWM Studios are additionally producing. Jordana Mollick is govt producing.

Michael Showalter (“The Big Sick”) is directing.

Tammy Faye Bakker was an American singer, evangelist and tv character who first gained recognition for “The PTL Club,” a televangelist program she co-founded along with her then-husband Jim Bakker in 1974. In 1978, the pair constructed a Christian theme park known as Heritage USA. Later, Jim Bakker was indicted, convicted and imprisoned on quite a few counts of fraud and conspiracy. The couple divorced, and she or he married Roe Messner. She was then recognized with colon most cancers in 1996 and died of the illness in 2007.

Currently, Alan Taylor’s “The Many Saints of Newark” can also be opening on Sept. 24 — beforehand, it was slated to open on March 12. The “My Little Pony Movie” can also be hitting theaters on Sept. 24.

9 Famous People Who Hated the Biopics About Them, From Mark Zuckerberg to Jada Pinkett Smith (Photos)

Not everyone seems to be pleased to see their life portrayed on the large display screen. From Mark Zuckerberg to David Letterman to Jada Pinkett Smith, some well-known folks have critical reservations concerning the movies about them.

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Hunter S. Thompson, “Where the Buffalo Roam” (1980)

Hunter S. Thompson wasn’t pleased concerning the film that was a semi-biography of his life.

“Horrible pile of crap. [Bill] Murray did a good job. But it was a bad script,” he said in an interview. “You can’t beat a bad script. It was just a horrible movie. A cartoon. But Bill Murray did a good job. We actually wrote and shot several different endings and beginnings and they all got cut out in the end. It was disappointing. Not to mention that I have to live with it. It’s like go into a bar somewhere and people start to giggle and you don’t know why, and they’re all watching that f—ing movie.”

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Michael Oher, “The Blind Side” (2009)

“The Blind Side” gained an Oscar for Sandra Bullock as a white suburban mother who took in a troubled Black youth and supported him throughout his rise to school and the NFL, however Michael Oher — the younger Black linebacker on the heart of the story — has lengthy voiced reservations concerning the movie. Back in 2011, he complained that the movie “portrayed me as dumb instead of as a kid who never had consistent academic instruction and ended up thriving once he got it” — and falsely urged he was a soccer novice earlier than the Tuohy household took him. He later mentioned the movie has “taken away from my football” by elevating false expectations and better scrutiny.

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Lil’ Kim, “Notorious” (2009)

According to MTV, Lil’ Kim blasted the 2009 film concerning the life and loss of life of Notorious B.I.G., saying, “most of the story is bullsh–.” She additionally expressed her disappointment over the choice to forged Naturi Naughton to play her.

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Mark Zuckerberg, “The Social Network” (2010)

Zuckerberg mentioned that the producers of 2010’s “The Social Network” “made it look like my complete motivation for constructing Facebook was so I might get women, proper? And they fully neglected the truth that my girlfriend,…