{"id":128840,"date":"2024-10-03T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T03:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/03\/john-boyega-and-danielle-deadwyler-to-star-in-otis-redding-biopic-otis-zelma\/"},"modified":"2024-10-03T03:00:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T03:00:19","slug":"john-boyega-and-danielle-deadwyler-to-star-in-otis-redding-biopic-otis-zelma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/03\/john-boyega-and-danielle-deadwyler-to-star-in-otis-redding-biopic-otis-zelma\/","title":{"rendered":"John Boyega and Danielle Deadwyler to Star in Otis Redding Biopic \u2018Otis &#038; Zelma\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">EXCLUSIVE: John Boyega and Danielle Deadwyler are set to portray late soul legend Otis Redding and his widow Zelma Redding in Fifth Season\u2019s forthcoming biopic \u201cOtis &amp; Zelma.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6R2VxJDaPo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/6R2VxJDaPo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QOpLU6qj3a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/QOpLU6qj3a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\/status\/1841504665411764400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>John Boyega and Danielle Deadwyler are set to portray late soul legend Otis Redding and his widow Zelma Redding in Fifth Season\u2019s forthcoming biopic \u201cOtis &amp; Zelma.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Directed by breakout filmmaker Channing Godfrey Peoples and produced by Fifth Season, Homegrown Pictures and Kinfolk Management + Media, the music-based film chronicles the life of Otis Redding, who is considered to be one of the most impactful singer-songwriters of our lifetime, with indelible hits including \u201c(Sittin\u2019 On) The Dock of the Bay,\u201d \u201cRespect,\u201d \u201cThese Arms of Mine,\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve Been Loving You Too Long\u201d and \u201cHard to Handle.\u201d Redding\u2019s burgeoning superstar career was tragically cut short when he died in a 1967 plane crash, leaving behind Zelma and three young children. He was 26 years old.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Variety\/status\/1841504665411764400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/129294288.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: John Boyega and Danielle Deadwyler are set to portray late soul legend Otis Redding and his widow Zelma Redding in Fifth Season\u2019s forthcoming biopic \u201cOtis &amp; Zelma.\u201dhttps:\/\/t.co\/6R2VxJDaPo pic.twitter.com\/QOpLU6qj3a \u2014 Variety (@Variety) October 2, 2024 John Boyega and Danielle Deadwyler are set to portray late soul legend Otis Redding and his widow Zelma Redding in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-128840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}