Zendaya has had quite the year—earlier this month she became the youngest person to win an Emmy for lead actress in a drama series for her role as Rue in Euphoria.
Well now, she’s in talks to play Ronnie Spector, the frontwoman of the musical group the Ronettes, in an A24 and New Regency-produced biopic of her life.
The film companies have acquired the rights to Spector’s life rights and her autobiography Be My Baby, which Spector wrote with Vince Waldron. They’re hoping that Pulitzer-winner Jackie Sibblies Drury will write the script.
The biopic will be about Spector’s early career and the formation of the Ronettes group, as well as their signing to Phil Spector’s Philles Records. While the group was at the label, they recorded “Be My Baby” and Spector married the record producer. The film will also follow the divorce of Spector and the film producer and the battle for Spector to get the rights to her music.
Marc Platt, who’s working on the Dear Evan Hansen, the Little Mermaid, and Wicked film adaptations, is set to produce the project with Spector to executive produce with her manager Jonathan Greenfield and Zendaya.
Spector personally selected Zendaya to portray her.
Zendaya’s upcoming projects include Denis Villeneuve’s Dune with Timothée Chalamet and Malcom & Marie alongside John David Washington.
