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EXCLUSIVE: A TV play chronicling nan early life of Céline Dion is successful nan works.
Growing Up Dion [working title] marks nan first clip nan “My Heart Will Go On” singer’s family has formally supported a dramatized adjustment of her childhood, pinch her relative Jacques Dion producing and nan show based connected Dion, A Family Saga, written by her nephew Jimmy Dion.
Zoë Green (Sirens, Carnival Row) is showrunning nan project, which traces Dion’s puerility successful Quebec and formative years increasing up successful a modest, music-filled household, wherever her enslaved pinch her mother Thérèse and close- knit move of 14 related relationships shaped her way to world superstardom. The project, which comes from LA’s Diamant Rouge Entertainment, is being taken retired now to world buyers.
The Canadian “Queen of Power Ballads” is undoubtedly 1 of nan astir celebrated singers of each time. She has won tonnes of awards, has been making euphony for decades and 7 of her albums person sold astatine slightest 10 cardinal copies worldwide. She has precocious been battling pinch Stiff Person Syndrome but is backmost successful bully wellness and will soon circuit Paris, coming 2 years after her comeback unrecorded performance astatine nan olympics.
Jacques Dion said: “This bid represents thing profoundly meaningful for our family, arsenic it captures nan spirit, struggles, and emotion that defined our upbringing. We are proud to yet stock this communicative pinch nan world successful a measurement that feels existent to who we are.”
Casting is to travel and thoughts will people move to who will represent Dion. She was antecedently played by Valérie Lemercier successful 2021 philharmonic comedy-drama Aline and Christine Ghawi successful 2008’s Céline. She has besides been portrayed by a number of actors successful Broadway jukebox philharmonic Titanique, a Titanic parody which retells nan movie’s events from Dion’s perspective.
Growing Up Dion is produced by Diamant Rouge, pinch Nicolas Giafferi and Jacques Dion producing. Executive producers see Eduardo Rossoff, Jacques Dion, Giafferi and Caroline Kusser, who oversees world distribution. Jimmy Dion is consulting.
