After saying goodbye to their Argentinian fans on April 28 at City Park, Kiss, one of the most iconic rock and roll groups on the New York and world stage, continues to work on the film that will reach millions of fans. via netflix. It’s about the movie It will show the beginnings of the band formed 50 years ago by Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss, which will tentatively be called Say it out loudAnd Just like one of the group’s songs.
The movie will be Directed by Joachim RonningNorwegian director who has directed several films such as Kon-tiki (2012), Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge (2017) and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019). For his part, film director Ole Sanders will be responsible for the script. The project is currently in pre-production and shooting is expected to begin soon. Still without official confirmation, the premiere is expected to arrive sometime in 2024.
The news broke her Band manager Doc McGee (who has also worked with motley crowor Bon Jovi or Skid Row) In an interview with journalist Mike Brune and his show Rock experienceProductionIt will be a biographical film about the first four years of Kiss’ life, a time before they became famous. We’re just getting started, but it came as a proposition and it’s already been sold to Netflix. We have the director of the movie with us and we’re really moving forward with the details. It was believed to have a tentative release date of 2024“.
The first time the possibility of bringing The Rock on stage was mentioned was in 2021, when Paul Stanley surprised the press by saying that Rönning was going to direct a movie of the quartet. The entire project will be overseen by Gene Simmons, bassist and leader of Kiss, along with singer Paul Stanley., and will focus on the early days when he collaborated with Peter Criss (drums) and Ace Frehley (guitar) to give life to the most famous band in the world. In that same interview, the Kiss principal explained the following regarding the cast: “When people are asked about those kinds of things, they usually say, ‘Uh, Brad Pitt,’ or this, or the other. Well, those guys are in their 50s or Sixties, you’re talking about another generation of actors and I’m the first to say I’m not interested in any of them. We’re looking for actors in their twenties.”
Currently, Gene Simmons is embarking on the final shows of their Farewell End of the Road Tour, and it was Gene Simmons himself who argued that Kiss would end his career, but would continue to be present in fans’ lives in “unimaginable ways.” Currently, the group is facing the last concerts that will take them across the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Poland, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Norway and Canada, to end their career with two concerts on the first and second of December in Madison Square GardenNo New York.
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