Hip Hop superstar, Wiz Khalifa has been cast as funk legend George Clinton in the forthcoming new movie, Spinning Gold, about Casablanca Records chief Neil Bogart.
Khalifa joins a cast that includes Tayla Parx set to play Donna Summer, Ledisi to play Gladys Knight and Lyndsy Fonseca to play music manager Joyce Biawitz. The movie is written and directed by Bogart’s son Timothy Scott Bogart.
Jeremy Jordan is set to play Neil Bogart in the the movie that charts the rise of his Buddah and Casablanca labels in the 1960s and ’70s with a roster that included Donna Summer, KISS, Parliament, Village People, The Isley Brothers, Gladys Knight and Bill Withers among others.
Spinning Gold will be a star studded movie event, because the cast also includes Jason Derulo, Pink $weats, Peyton List, Jay Pharoah, Michelle Monaghan, Jason Isaacs, Sebastian Maniscalco, Dan Fogler, Chris Redd, Casey Likes, Sam Harris, Alex Gaskarth, Jimmy Wolk, Michael Ian Black and Vinnie Pastore.
That’s not all, the movie will also include new versions of some classics, including Summers’ “Last Dance” and “Love to Love You Baby”; Parliament’s “Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)”; the Isley Brothers’ “Fight the Power” and “It’s Your Thing”; Knight’s “Midnight Train to Georgia”; Withers’ “Lean on Me” and “Ain’t No Sunshine” Kiss’ “Rock and Roll All Nite” and “Shout it Out Loud”, Village People’s “YMCA”; and “Oh Happy Day” by the Edwin Hawkins Singers — performed by Parx, Khalifa, Derulo, Pink Sweat$, Harris, Casey Likes, Gaskarth and Ledisi.
We can already tell this movie will be a Golden hit, see what we did there!
