Cher has shared some long-anticipated news with her fans ahead of her 75th birthday today (May 20): her biopic is reportedly in the works at Universal Pictures.
The Strong Enough singer will serve as co-producer, alongside Judy Craymer and Gary Goetzman. The producer duo is known for being behind the movie adaptations of Mamma Mia!, including Here We Go Again, released in 2018 and starring Cher, Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, and Lily James.
It is unclear whether the biopic will focus on a specific phase of Cher’s nearly sixty-year-long career. As some fans are pointing out that they had been waiting for a biopic for decades, Cher had the most iconic one-liner to explain the reason why the movie is only being made now.
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Spanning six decades, Cher’s career has seen her selling more than 100 million records as well as putting her acting skills to the test in films such as Mermaids and Moonstruck, for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1988.
The singer took to her social media on May 20 to announce the exciting news in her characteristic all-caps Twitter style.
“Ok Universal is Doing Biopic With My Friends JUDY CRAYMER,GARY GOETZMAN PRODUCING,” Cher wrote on May 20.
Some fans think her biopic was long-overdue, but the singer had the most amazing response for those who were impatient.
“I have been waiting for this since I was 15! It only took 50 years! When will it be done?” a fan commented on the biopic announcement.
"I Had More life to Live,” Cher simply replied.
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Cher also revealed that her “dear dear friend” Eric Roth will pen the script of her biopic. Roth is known for being the screenwriter of Forrest Gump, for which he won an Academy Award in 1995, the latest remake of A Star is Born, and Suspect, a legal mystery thriller starring Cher and Dennis Quaid.
“Gary and I are thrilled to be working with Cher again and this time bringing her empowering and true-life odyssey to the big screen,” Craymer said in a press release.
“One cannot help but be drawn to and inspired by Cher’s larger than life talent, fortitude, unique wit, warmth and vision. Her unparalleled success in music, film and TV has inspired generations. We could not be happier to tell her story to cinema audiences.”