Music legend Cher has celebrated her 75th birthday early with some fabulous news for fans – a biopic is officially in the works.
The musical icon confirmed the exciting news that a film based on her illustrious life is in the works with Universal Pictures via Twitter today.
The flick is set to be written by a “DEAR DEAR Friend” Eric Roth, who won an Academy Award in 1994 for his work on Forrest Gump and worked with Cher on her 1987 film Suspect.
“Ok Universal is Doing Biopic With My Friends JUDY CRAYMER,GARY GOETZMAN PRODUCING. THEY PRODUCED BOTH MAMMA MIA’S,& MY DEAR DEAR Friend 4 YRS, & OSCAR WINNER,” she wrote on Wednesday.
ERIC ROTH IS GOING 2 WRITE IT👻🎂‼️ FORREST GUMP, A STAR IS BORN, SUSPECT, TO NAME A FEW OF IS FILMS.”
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According to a press release, Judy Craymer and Gary Goetzman will also act as producers alongside the singer.
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The pair previously worked with the star on the Mamma Mia! sequel in 2018, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.
“Gary and I are thrilled to be working with Cher again and this time bringing her empowering and true-life odyssey to the big screen,” Craymer said in a statement following the news.
“One cannot help but be drawn to and inspired by Cher’s larger than life talent, fortitude, unique wit, warmth, and vision. Her unparalleled success in music film and TV has inspired generations.”
“We could not be happier to tell her story to cinema audiences.”
More recently, she starred in documentary Cher & The Loneliest Elephant, following her fight to save an elephant living alone at the Islamabad Zoo to the safety of a Cambodian sanctuary.
“It can get exhausting being Cher, especially when you’re older and you’re still doing the same things,” she told PEOPLE in 2018.
“But I still have a great time. To have the stamina, and also to have the audience … You forget that people just do regular jobs that they don’t get applause for.”
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