{"id":30129,"date":"2024-08-13T18:02:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T18:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/movie-about-eurythmics-dave-stewarts-teen-years-in-the-works\/"},"modified":"2024-08-13T18:02:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T18:02:30","slug":"movie-about-eurythmics-dave-stewarts-teen-years-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/movie-about-eurythmics-dave-stewarts-teen-years-in-the-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie about Eurythmics\u2019 Dave Stewart\u2019s teen years in the works"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-13\/M_DaveStewart_081324.jpg\" alt><figcaption>ABC\/Eric McCandless<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A movie about rocker <strong>Dave Stewart<\/strong>\u2019s teen years is headed to the big screen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The <strong>Eurythmics<\/strong> star tells the site that director <strong>Shekhar Kapur<\/strong> has been hired to direct <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Ebony McQueen, <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">a film based on\u00a0Stewart&#8217;s\u00a02022 semi-autobiographical album of the same name. It follows Stewart\u2019s teen years in North East England in the 1960s\/early 1970s, when he discovered music after he hurt his knee playing soccer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWhen I was at my lowest point, a turn of fate changed my life forever. Music appeared as if by magic,\u201d Stewart tells\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/08\/dave-stewart-movie-shekhar-kapur-ar-rahman-ebony-mcqueen-1236038506\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Deadline<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">. \u201cYes, music found me and opened my eyes to a whole new world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Filming on the movie is expected to begin next spring in Stewart\u2019s hometown of Sunderland. British actress <strong>Sharon D. Clarke<\/strong>, whose credits include <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Doctor Who<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> and London\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Ghost: The Musical, <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">which Stewart wrote the music for, is on board to play the title character, a fairy godmother-type who encourages Stewart to go for his musical dreams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Stewart will\u00a0partner with <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Slumdog Millionaire<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> composer <strong>A.R. Rahman\u00a0<\/strong>on the music for the film, with Rahman penning\u00a0the score and Stewart handling the lyrics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC\/Eric McCandless A movie about rocker Dave Stewart\u2019s teen years is headed to the big screen. The Eurythmics star tells the site that director Shekhar Kapur has been hired to direct Ebony McQueen, a film based on\u00a0Stewart&#8217;s\u00a02022 semi-autobiographical album of the same name. It follows Stewart\u2019s teen years in North<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/movie-about-eurythmics-dave-stewarts-teen-years-in-the-works\/\">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\/30129"}],"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=30129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}