‘I Wanna Dance WIth Somebody’ Movie: Everything to Know About Whitney Houston Biopic

A Look Back astatine Whitney Houston

Whitney Houston’s beingness is chronicled successful ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’. (Shutterstock)

Whitney Houston was an instant sensation erstwhile she released her opus “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” successful 1987, astatine conscionable 19 years old. From determination she would spell connected to triumph Grammys, prima successful deed films, and circuit worldwide, earlier her tragic decease successful 2012.

I Wanna Dance With Somebody offers a sunny look into Whitney’s emergence to fame, showing her commencement arsenic Clive Davis’ protege and her bombshell success. The trailer promised moments from iconic euphony videos, her 1992 wedding to Bobby Brown, and her 1991 Super Bowl performance.

The preview is packed with bites from the singer’s top hits but seems to omit immoderate of the darker parts of Whitney’s life, similar her tumultuous narration with Bobby and her conflict with drugs. This is apt due to the fact that dissimilar different unauthorized Whitney biopics, similar Lifetime’s 2014 TV movie Whitney directed by Angela Bassett, I Wanna Dance With Somebody has been approved by one wanna creation with idiosyncratic opus and was fixed rights to usage her philharmonic catalog.

Where and When to Watch

‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’ volition travel retired exclusively successful theaters connected December 21, 2022. (Everett)

I Wanna Dance With Somebody will travel retired exclusively successful theaters connected December 21, 2022, via Sony Pictures. The merchandise day was initially confirmed successful Feb. 2022. The movie’s end-of-year merchandise makes it primed for the awards amusement circuit, successful summation to giving it a large accidental astatine the vacation container office.

Cast and Crew

Naomi Ackie volition play the diva. The BAFTA victor was besides successful ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.'(Shutterstock)

• Naomi Ackie plays the 1 and lone Whitney Houston in I Wanna Dance With Somebody. She made an content with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and a BAFTA-winning relation successful Netflix’s The End Of The F***Ing World, earlier landing the portion of the diva.
• The archetypal manager of I Wanna Dance With Somebody, Stella Meghie, said astatine the time of the casting, “We spent the amended portion of the past twelvemonth successful an exhaustive hunt for an histrion who could embody Whitney Houston. Naomi Ackie impressed america astatine each signifier of the process. I was moved by her quality to seizure the signifier beingness of a planetary icon portion bringing humanity to her interior life.”

• Ashton Sanders plays Whitney’s hubby Bobby Brown. Bobby and Whitney wed successful 1992 and had a rollercoaster of a relationship. They divorced successful 2007 and the songstress passed distant 5 years later.
• Tamara Tunie plays Cissy Houston, Whitney’s mother. Cissy was a gospel and psyche vocalist who pushed her girl toward the spotlight.
• Stanley Tucci is grounds shaper Clive Davis. Clive discovered Whitney aft proceeding her astatine a nightclub successful the 80s. He besides served arsenic a shaper connected the film.

Director Kasi Lemmons was successful complaint of the philharmonic biopic. The filmmaker has a knack for almighty stories, antecedently helming 2019’s Harriet astir abolitionist Harriet Tubman.

The publication was successful bully hands with Anthony McCarten. He’d proven an ace astatine biopics, moving connected ‘Bohemian Rhapsody‘ and The Theory of Everything, which earned him an Oscar nomination.

Filming Details

I Wanna Dance With Somebody began main photography connected August 9, 2021, successful Newark, New Jersey and Boston, Massachusetts. Scenes were filmed successful Arlington, Massachusetts, arsenic good arsenic astatine the Worcester Regional Airport, Wang Theater and Cutler Majestic Theatre and Gillette Stadium, successful Oct. and Nov. of 2021, per sources.