Jamie Foxx, Beyonce, Murphy’s to recreate Supremes’ music

LOS ANGELES—Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx, musical sensation Beyonce Knowles and funnyman Eddie Murphy are to star in a movie tracking the rise of Diana Ross and the Supremes to the top of the music world in the 1960s. Paramount Pictures has signed director Bill Condon to direct the movie version of the Broadway show “DreamGirls,” the entertainment industry bible Daily Variety said Wednesday.
The movie, based on a book by Tom Eyen and using the lyrics and music of Eyen and Henry Krieger, tells the story of the early years of Motown Records diva Ross and her two fellow Supremes. Condon, 49, who wrote the Oscar-winning 2002 musical “Chicago,” which reignited the musical genre in Hollywood, is also writing the script for “Dreamgirls.”
Condon also directed last year’s Oscar nominated “Kinsey” and 1998’s “Gods and Monsters.” Foxx won the best actor this year for his interpretation of soul genius Ray Charles in “Ray,” while Knowles is the Grammy-winning former frontwoman of the group Destiny.—Agencies