Thursday, October 7, 2010

'Jersey Boys' Heading to the Big Screen

GK Films, the new production company from producer Graham King (The Departed, The Town), has nabbed the feature film rights to the Tony award winning mega-hit musical Jersey Boys, according to Deadline New York.

About the seemingly overnight success of the Four Seasons (i.e. Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito, and Nick Massi) in the 1960s, the film will include the group’s hit songs, like “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” and “Oh What a Night.”

The screenplay will be written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, who wrote the book of the show. Vallie and Gaudio will executive produce.

No word yet on when it will be released.

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