Amazon Acquires C&W Legend Merle Haggard Biopic Package; Sam Rockwell Circling & Robin Bissell Directing Script He’ll Write With Theresa Haggard
Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has acquired a package for a film biopic of iconic C&W singer Merle Haggard. Oscar-winning actor Sam Rockwell is circling to play Haggard, and he will do his own singing of Haggard’s standards, recorded during the ‘60s when the picture is set.Robin Bissell will direct the film, and he will write the script with Merle’s widow, Theresa Haggard, based on the Haggard memoir Sing Me Back Home.