The life and career of legendary pop trio the Bee Gees is set to play out on the big screen in a brand new biopic.
Singer Barry Gibb – the sole surviving member of the How Deep Is Your Love group – tells the Daily Star fans can expect a biographical film within the next couple of years.
Following on from 2020 documentary, ‘The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart’, he says: “The biopic could be about two years away.
“You shall see how I saw the world through my eyes, and there are a lot of things that nobody ever knew about.
“It is a million moments, you know – a million moments that change your life in one day.”
Gibb, who released solo album ‘Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook Vol. 1‘ back in January, is also working on an autobiography with his son Ashley – although he suggests the content isn’t suitable for the screen.
He insists: “There are things in the book that could never be in the film.”
The biopic and book news follows reports that actor Bradley Cooper has been approached by producers over the possibility of playing the eldest of the Gibb brothers in the flick.
It is set to follow the group from the time they arrived in London from Australia and had their first chart-topping hit with Massachusetts in 1967.
The untitled movie is yet to get a director, but producer Graham King has been enlisted to work on the project, following his success with Queen biopic ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’.
Paramount Pictures – which also worked on hit Elton John film Rocketman – are also involved, having purchased the rights from the Gibb estate to use the Bee Gees’ classic music, and the motion picture is being written by screenwriter Anthony McCarten.
After brothers Maurice and Robin died in 2003 and 2012, respectively, Barry confessed he “can’t handle” having to address his siblings’ passings.
“I can’t handle watching the rest of my family. I just can’t handle it,” insists the Night Fever star.
“Who would? I think it’s perfectly normal to not want to see how each brother was lost, you know? And I don’t want to address it. I’m past it.”
