MGM Sets Sammy Davis Jr Biopic; Lena Waithe Among Producers, David Matthews Adapting Book By Daughter Tracey Davis
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deadline.comMike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: MGM has set a Sammy Davis Jr. biopic that will be based on Sammy Davis Jr.: My Father, a 1996 book written by Davis’ daughter Tracey Davis and Dolores A.
Barclay. Studio has Hillman Grad’s Lena Waithe and Rishi Rajani producing with Sight Unseen’s Julia Lebedev and Eddie Vaisman.
David Matthews is writing the script.The project reunites Waithe with MGM’s Pamela Abdy, who most recently collaborated on Queen and Slim at Makeready.
In the book, daughter Tracey recounted a loving but distant relationship with her father, describing how she confronted him and how they drew closer as she grew older.
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