From Variety
ABC Ga-Ga Over Go-Go’s
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) -- ABC's gone head over heels for the Go-Go's. The network is developing a biopic that chronicles the rise of the Go-Go's as the first superstar, all-girl rock band in the MTV era. The project could be ready in time for a possible February sweeps run. Mark Sennet and Alan Jacobs, along with Jaffe-Braunstein ("Gilda Radner: It's Always Something"), purchased the life rights from the five members of the LA rock band and sold the pitch to ABC; Sennet and Jacobs made the pitch with the band members – Belinda Carlisle, Jane Weidlin, Charlotte Caffey, Kathy Valentine and Gina Schock -- in tow. "This is a 'Pygmalion' story -- punk princesses become rock princesses," Sennet said, differentiating the band's narrative from the typical "Behind the Music" tale. Rights to the Go-Go's story have been long sought after; the act had a notori-ous appetite for ______ and drugs, and the group imploded after just four years of making albums and scoring hit singles such as "We Got the Beat," "Vacation" and "Our Lips Are Sealed". The group reunited in 1994 and '95 for an album and tour, and again last year. Scribes Annie deYoung and Max Enscoe, the husband-and-wife team responsible for ABC's upcoming Prince William TV movie and last season's "Facts of Life" redux, have been hired to write the tale. Their script will focus on how these suburbanites developed out of the punk clubs of Hollywood in the late 1970s and early '80s and into MTV icons. The picture will also depict the group's mid-'80s breakup and eventual reconciliation. No offers have been made to directors or actors, but the Go-Go's themselves are expected to participate in the picture. Sennet hopes a filmed Go-Go's concert can also make it into ABC's schedule.
ABC Ga-Ga Over Go-Go’s
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) -- ABC's gone head over heels for the Go-Go's. The network is developing a biopic that chronicles the rise of the Go-Go's as the first superstar, all-girl rock band in the MTV era. The project could be ready in time for a possible February sweeps run. Mark Sennet and Alan Jacobs, along with Jaffe-Braunstein ("Gilda Radner: It's Always Something"), purchased the life rights from the five members of the LA rock band and sold the pitch to ABC; Sennet and Jacobs made the pitch with the band members – Belinda Carlisle, Jane Weidlin, Charlotte Caffey, Kathy Valentine and Gina Schock -- in tow. "This is a 'Pygmalion' story -- punk princesses become rock princesses," Sennet said, differentiating the band's narrative from the typical "Behind the Music" tale. Rights to the Go-Go's story have been long sought after; the act had a notori-ous appetite for ______ and drugs, and the group imploded after just four years of making albums and scoring hit singles such as "We Got the Beat," "Vacation" and "Our Lips Are Sealed". The group reunited in 1994 and '95 for an album and tour, and again last year. Scribes Annie deYoung and Max Enscoe, the husband-and-wife team responsible for ABC's upcoming Prince William TV movie and last season's "Facts of Life" redux, have been hired to write the tale. Their script will focus on how these suburbanites developed out of the punk clubs of Hollywood in the late 1970s and early '80s and into MTV icons. The picture will also depict the group's mid-'80s breakup and eventual reconciliation. No offers have been made to directors or actors, but the Go-Go's themselves are expected to participate in the picture. Sennet hopes a filmed Go-Go's concert can also make it into ABC's schedule.