Justin Timberlake to star in movie about making music instead of actually making music
Justin Timberlake has lately made something of a game out of doing music-related projects that don’t involve actually making music, and here’s another: Timberlake has signed on to star in Spinning Gold, a biopic of Neil Bogart, the 1970s producer of many of the decade’s biggest hit records, which are those things Justin Timberlake used to make before The Social Network. Bogart’s son Tim wrote the screenplay, which details his father’s rise from being a “dirt-poor Jewish kid from Brooklyn” to the top of the industry, managing the careers of artists like KISS, Donna Summer, and The Village People before dying of cancer at the age of 39. And naturally, when you think “dirt-poor Jewish kid from Brooklyn,” you think “Justin Timberlake,” who probably has to turn down a remake of The Jazz Singer like every three days.