Actor
Dan Aykroyd and actress Jill Scott are set to star in director Tate Taylor’s
James Brown biopic, Get On Up.
The
movie will see Brown (Chadwick Boseman) from his humbling beginnings to the
stardom “while recounting his battle with drug addiction, arrest for domestic
violence, and flirting with financial ruin several times.”
Aykroyd
will play Ben Bart, the president of Universal Attractions, which represented
Brown for over 40 years. As for Scott, she will play Brown’s wife, in a part
that written exclusively for her.
Get
On Up also stars Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, and Lennie James and opens on
October 17th, 2014.
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