After opening the e book on her personal life in her expansive, bestselling 2023 memoir My Identify Is Barbra, Barbra Streisand will dive even deeper into her personal life in an upcoming multipart documentary. Sony Music Imaginative and prescient, Columbia Information, Jigsaw Productions and the Kennedy/Marshall Firm introduced on Thursday (Sept. 26) that manufacturing has already begun on a definitive biopic concerning the EGOT winner.
“For years I’ve been serious about the easiest way to share the huge quantity of content material I’ve been safely storing in my vault. These movies, photographs and music masters — many by no means seen or heard by the general public — maintain a few of my most cherished reminiscences,” mentioned Streisand in an announcement about granting the manufacturing unprecedented entry to her private archives, together with a whole bunch of hours of never-before-seen video, photographs and audio recordings, in addition to private gadgets from all through her profession.
“I’m so happy that producer Alex Gibney and director Frank Marshall have agreed to take this journey with me,” she added of director Marshall (Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story) and Oscar-winning producer Gibney (Taxi to the Darkish Aspect). “My appreciation to Tom Mackay, head of Sony Music’s Premium Content material workforce, for his perception within the mission. And particularly to Sony Music Chairman Rob Stringer who has unwaveringly supported so lots of my artistic endeavors.”
In accordance with the discharge asserting the mission, the collection will “provide an intimate and complete exploration of each side of the enduring multi-hyphenate, who, in a career-spanning six many years, has excelled in each space of leisure.” The discharge guarantees that the entry to Streisand’s private archives alongside modern verité will present an “in-depth have a look at Streisand’s star-studded previous and her present inventive endeavors.”
A title and launch date for the doc haven’t but been introduced.
“I’m thrilled to be working with Alex once more and to have the chance to convey Barbra’s unimaginable life story to the display,” mentioned Marshall in an announcement. “We’ve got been given unprecedented entry to archival footage from many years of her groundbreaking profession and intimate visibility to the trailblazing she continues to do in life immediately. Uncovering these outstanding moments illustrate why she has grow to be an everlasting icon to a worldwide viewers of all generations.”
Producer Gibney added, “Individuals have been speaking concerning the want for the definitive documentary on Barbra Streisand for years. After a collection of fantastic conversations and rigorous analysis, we’re transferring ahead with Frank Marshall on the helm. I’m delighted to supply this movie on Barbra, a legendary singer, extraordinary actor, director, and political activist who conjures up us all. Did I overlook to say that she’s an incredible storyteller who’s humorous as hell?”
