{"id":1205361,"date":"2022-09-16T00:24:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T00:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/16\/first-official-trailer-drops-for-upcoming-whitney-houston-biopic-i-wanna-dance-with-somebody\/"},"modified":"2022-09-16T00:24:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T00:24:48","slug":"first-official-trailer-drops-for-upcoming-whitney-houston-biopic-i-wanna-dance-with-somebody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/16\/first-official-trailer-drops-for-upcoming-whitney-houston-biopic-i-wanna-dance-with-somebody\/","title":{"rendered":"First Official Trailer Drops For Upcoming Whitney Houston Biopic \u2018I Wanna Dance With Somebody!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n                                <!--  --><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After months of anticipation, the first official trailer has finally arrived for the latest look at the life of the iconic\u00a0Whitney Houston. British actress and BAFTA Award-winner\u00a0Naomi Ackie\u00a0is stepping into the legendary shoes of Whitney Houston in the lead role in the Sony\/TriStar biopic\u00a0\u2018I Wanna Dance With Somebody.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Naomi Ackie is accompanied in the film by co-stars\u00a0Ashton Sanders\u00a0as\u00a0Bobby Brown, Stanley Tucci as Clive Davis and Tamara Tunie as Cissy Houston. \u2018I Wanna Dance With Somebody\u2019 is set to be released in theaters on December 21st.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The film is described as a \u201cno-holds-barred portrait of the complex and multifaceted woman behind The Voice,\u201d while tracing the inspiring story of a New Jersey choir girl who went on to become one of the best-selling and most awarded recording artists in music history.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CiiRNJjOMTT\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we previously reported back in August 2020, while there have already been television biopics and documentaries about the life of Whitney Houston, this will be the first feature film. \u2018I Wanna Dance With Somebody\u2019 will be produced by Pat Houston\u00a0on behalf of the Houston Estate, Clive Davis and more. The film will also have the rights to use all of Whitney\u2019s hits, something that no other project documenting her life has ever had.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018I Wanna Dance With Somebody\u2019 is directed by Kasi Lemmons, who most recent directly the Harriet Tubman biopic \u2018Harriet\u2019 and written by \u2018Bohemian Rhapsody\u2019 screenwriter Anthony McCarten.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');<\/p>\n<p> fbq('init', '1743561565887263'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of anticipation, the first official trailer has finally arrived for the latest look at the life of the iconic\u00a0Whitney Houston. 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