KISS are eager to follow the lead of Queen, Elton John and Mötley Crüe by producing a biopic before their retirement.
KISS manager Don McGhee told the Rock Talk With Mitch Lafon podcast they’re in “the middle of working on a KISS biopic.”
McGhee revealed plans for a biopic during last year’s KISS Kruise, and the project has come along since then. “It’s scripted,” said McGhee. “I can tell you it’s with Mark Canton. He’s a great, great producer.”
Canton has had box office success with the 300 films and the 2011 epic Immortals starring Mickey Rourke. Lafon asked whether the KISS film was being developed in conjunction with a streaming service, but those details are yet to be ironed out.
“Hopefully in the next week we’ll have a company behind it,” said McGhee, “and we’ll start finishing the script and hopefully by the time we end we’ll have a movie finished for … the end of July next year.”
Watch: Don McGhee on Rock Talk
July 2021 is when KISS will play their final ever show. The band has just commenced leg five of their End of the Road World Tour. They’ll spend the first half of the year covering North and South America. Then they’re off to Europe and South Africa before completing the year back in the USA.
The band currently only has one show scheduled for 2021 – July 17 at an unnamed New York location.
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Watch: Kiss announce final show on End of the Road tour
KISS cancelled their 2019 Australia tour due to guitarist Paul Stanley’s poor health. “Words cannot begin to convey our massive disappointment in having to cancel our End Of The Road tour of your incredible country,” Stanley said in a statement. “Our connection to you is unparalleled and decades deep.” Ticketholders received refunds and no further dates have been announced.
A KISS documentary is also in production. It’s called Kisstory and aims to be “the definitive documentary of KISS.” It’s scheduled for release in the second half of 2020.
