Biopic James Brown. Young James Brown and Aunt Honey (Octavia Spencer) in a scene from Get on Up. A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential On route to the stage, singer James Brown recalls a life with a turbulent childhood where music was his.
The first trailer for the upcoming James Brown biopic Get On Up has been released, click through to see it! James Brown lived a lot of life. According to Deanna Brown-Thomas, one of Brown's seven children, her father was intrigued but wary of Given how long you've been working on this, a James Brown biopic seems to be one of your.
It's the James Brown movie that'll say the word "funk" a dozen times for every white man involved in bringing it to the screen (three on the script, one — Tate Taylor of The Help — behind the camera)!
Get On Up is the Hollywood biopic at its near-worst—a formless, extravagant assortment of It's wall-to-wall James Brown.
His bones and his muscles, like Brown's, seem to be articulated in a way that defies God's plan for how our bodies should move. But what about all the insanity it left out? The film gets right the poverty and.