Selena Gomez to Play Linda Ronstadt in New Biopic

Selection has revealed that Selena Gomez would painting Linda Ronstadt in an upcoming biopic.Tuesday evening, the pop singer and star of “Solely Murders within the Constructing” hinted to the half by sharing a photograph of Ronstadt’s 2013 autobiography “Easy Desires” on her Instagram story.

With producers together with Ronstadt’s supervisor, John Boylan, and James Keach, who produced the 2019 documentary “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice,” the music biopic is presently in pre-production.There aren’t any additional casting bulletins.

Legendary within the fields of nation, rock ‘n’ roll, and Latin music, Ronstadt’s albums “Coronary heart Like a Wheel” and “Easy Desires” from the Seventies achieved each important and industrial acclaim, demonstrating her flexibility in a wide range of musical genres.

Eleven Grammy Awards have been hers throughout her profession, and he or she has acquired Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Latin Recording Academy and the Recording Academy.Gomez and Ronstadt are each of Mexican heritage.

The latter, who co-stars and government produces the Hulu collection “Solely Murders within the Constructing” with Steve Martin and Martin Brief, has acquired two Golden Globe nominations for her work.

Gomez rose to fame as an actor in Disney’s “Wizards of Waverly Place” and have become well-known for her songs “Love You Like a Love Music” and “Lose You to Love Me.”Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman filmed Ronstadt’s 2019 documentary, which adopted the singer-songwriter all through her almost five-decade profession and ascent to the highest of the country-rock style.

Ronstadt declared her retirement in 2011, solely to subsequently disclose that her worsening supranuclear palsy—first misdiagnosed as Parkinson’s illness—was the explanation she will be able to now not sing.