In a brand new biography, pop singer and actress Selena Gomez will play the enormously widespread American singer Linda Ronstadt.

At present in pre-production, the movie is being produced by James Keach, who has labored on quite a lot of music-related movie initiatives together with producing Oscar-winning Johnny Money biopic Stroll the Line and documentaries on Ronstadt, David Crosby and Glen Campbell. The supervisor of Ronstadt, John Boylan, may also produce.

Gomez and Ronstadt, who’re each of Mexican descent, “not too long ago spent a number of hours at Linda’s dwelling discussing the challenge and attending to know one another,” based on a touch upon Boylan’s web site.

The film will dramatize a topic that’s perhaps lengthy overdue in popular culture: Ronstadt rose to prominence within the US music business within the Seventies and Nineteen Eighties by deftly mixing people, rock, and nation music. She was additionally a novel feminine presence in a predominantly male rock milieu.

Easy Desires and Coronary heart Like a Wheel have been two of her six consecutive platinum albums. The only You are No Good additionally peaked at primary on the US chart. She was sincere in regards to the alienation she felt, saying, “They have not invented a phrase for that loneliness that everyone goes via on the highway,” but she needed to struggle laborious to assert her place within the often sexist music business.

After the success of 2020’s Uncommon, which topped the US album chart like its predecessors, Gomez is presently engaged on her fourth studio album. She is going to subsequent be seen within the musical comedy drama Emilia Perez, directed by Jacques Audiard, the Frenchman behind Rust and Bone, A Prophet, and The Beat That My Coronary heart Skipped, along with her ongoing half within the sitcom Solely Murders within the Constructing.