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If you’re going to make a rock biopic and you need to cast the frontman, you may as well get a singer to play a singer. Deadline reports that’s exactly what’s happened with the upcoming biopic of the glam rock band KISS.
Nick Jonas of Jonas Brothers fame has been cast as KISS frontman Paul Stanley in the upcoming biopic about the band, “Shout It Out Loud”. The film is directed by McG from a script by Darren Lemke.
McG is best remembered as the director of the 2003 sequel “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle” and 2009’s “Terminator Salvation”.
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“Shout It Out Loud” is scheduled to go into production either by the end of this year or early in 2026.
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Deadline says that Jonas will be doing his own singing for the film, but that he’ll be going through some training in order to more accurately sound like Stanley.
The site also reports that McG is getting close to finding a star who can play perhaps the most famous member of KISS, Gene Simmons.
While KISS is a four-man group, Stanley and Simmons have been the only consistent members over the years, with the rest of the lineup changing a number of times since the band’s formation in the seventies.
First getting together in 1973, KISS is less known for its music and better remembered for its theatrics. Their performances were known for their pyrotechnics, fire breathing, blood spitting, levitating drum kits, and more.
The band members wear face paint and take on the roles of fantastic characters like Starchild (Stanley) and The Demon (Simmons).
In fact, along with their onstage personas, the band has appeared in comic books for decades in stories that portray them not only as a rock band but as saviors of the world.
The most recent comic was Dynamite Entertainment’s “KISS: Phantom Obsession”. They’ve also crossed over with numerous other properties such as “Vampirella” and “Army of Darkness”.
Musically, the band is best known for power anthems like “Rock and Roll All Nite”. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.
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