{"id":29189,"date":"2024-04-03T21:03:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/upcoming-film-about-buddy-holly-lands-director-mario-van-peebles\/"},"modified":"2024-04-03T21:03:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:03:12","slug":"upcoming-film-about-buddy-holly-lands-director-mario-van-peebles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/upcoming-film-about-buddy-holly-lands-director-mario-van-peebles\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming film about Buddy Holly lands director Mario Van Peebles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-03\/Getty_BuddyHolly_040324.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Hulton Archive\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A new film about <strong>Buddy Holly<\/strong>\u00a0is in the works, and it\u2019s now snagged a director.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/film\/global\/mario-van-peebles-thatll-be-the-day-buddy-holly-rock-n-roll-1235958754\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Variety<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> reports that <strong>Mario Van Peebles<\/strong> is set to\u00a0direct <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">That\u2019ll Be the Day<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, which will focus on Holly and his fellow musicians of the 1950s, detailing how their music influenced society and culture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAmerica\u2019s tumultuous cultural melting pot has produced transcendent musical talent, including Buddy Holly, who was our first bad a** rock \u2019n\u2019 roll nerd,\u201d Van Peebles, who previously directed <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">New Jack City<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0and the recently released <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Outlaw Posse,\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">shares about the project.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The film\u2019s screenplay was written by <strong>Patrick Shanahan<\/strong> and <strong>Matthew Benjamin<\/strong>.\u00a0Benjamin produced the 1987 biopic <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">La Bamba<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, about singer\u00a0<strong>Richie Valens<\/strong>, who died alongside Holly and <strong>J.P. Richardson<\/strong>,\u00a0aka The Big Bopper, in the 1959 plane crash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">That&#8217;ll Be the Day<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> appears to have backing by the Buddy Holly estate. BMG, the company that manages the estate and controls the rights to the singer\u2019s music catalog, is providing early funding for the film.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hulton Archive\/Getty Images A new film about Buddy Holly\u00a0is in the works, and it\u2019s now snagged a director. Variety reports that Mario Van Peebles is set to\u00a0direct That\u2019ll Be the Day, which will focus on Holly and his fellow musicians of the 1950s, detailing how their music influenced society and<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/upcoming-film-about-buddy-holly-lands-director-mario-van-peebles\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}