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Cheris ringing in her birthday with some big news!
The music icon, who turns 75 on Thursday, has confirmed that a biopic about her illustrious life and career is in the works with Universal Pictures.
Judy Craymer and Gary Goetzman will act as producers alongside Cher herself, according to a press release.
The pair previously got to know Cher when they worked with the star on the 2018Mamma Mia!sequel,Mamma Mia! Here We Got Again.
Added Craymer, “We could not be happier to tell her story to cinema audiences.”
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News of a Cher biopic comes two years after the premiere ofThe Cher Show, a musical about award-winning entertainer’s life. The stage production debuted on Broadway in December 2018 after an out-of-town tryout in Chicago earlier that year.
The show ran for eight months — andeven had a visit from Cher herself— before closing in August 2019.
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Throughout her decades-long career, Cher has won an Emmy, a Grammy and an Oscar in addition to receiving a plethora of honors for her impact on pop culture.
Most recently,Cher & The Loneliest Elephant, a documentary about how the multi-hyphenated entertainer fought to move an elephant living alone at the Islamabad Zoo to a Cambodian sanctuary, premiered on the The Smithsonian Channel.
“It can get exhausting being Cher, especially when you’re older and you’re still doing the same things,” shetold PEOPLEin 2018. “But I still have a great time. To have the stamina, and also to have the audience … You forget that people just do regular jobs that they don’t get applause for.”
PEOPLE’s new special editionCher at 75!is available now wherever magazines are sold.
source: people.com
