Bassett told the press this is a love story, but it’s one whose tragic consequences are basically ignored. Whitney tells the story of Houston and Bobby Brown from the time when they met at the Soul Train awards until five years later, after their wedding, the birth of their daughter, and Brown’s first stint in rehab. Like so many other movies on the channel this one features inexpensive sets (Bobby and Whitney’s house looks like it was on loan from an episode of Miami Vice and hasn’t been really kept up since it went off the air in 1989), cheesy dialogue, and costumes that are ridiculous if not period accurate. The Whitney Houston biopic, set to air on Lifetime in 2015, will have Larry Sanitsky as its executive producer (he held the same role for Betty and Coretta) and Shern Bitterman will be writing the screenplay.Bassett’s involvement is really the only thing that makes this stand out from all the other hack jobs that Lifetime has done. Blige as the widows of human rights activist, Malcolm X, and civil rights leader, Dr. The first, Betty and Coretta, featured Bassett and singer Mary J.
The movie on the life of Houston is the second collaborative effort of Bassett and Lifetime Television. She was 48 years old at the time of her passing. Houston had also completed filming Sparkle, a remake of a 1976 drama, earlier that year. She had planned to appear at a pre-Grammys party thrown by her mentor, Clive Davis. On February 11, 2012, Houston was found dead in her room at the Beverly Hills Hotel. “How could you not do a reality show, and I’m your wife, and not have me in it?” She revealed that it was something she did to make her husband happy, as opposed to something that would help keep the Whitney Houston brand a top priority. There were times of her being disheveled or obvious moments where she was not in her right frame of mind. The show, which lasted for one season in 2005, often showed Houston in a very harsh light. She went as far as to allow cameras into their personal lives for the taping of the Bravo reality series, Being Bobby Brown. She admitted that there were times where she attempted to be nothing more than a wife. “I tried to play down all the time,” Houston explained. The star power of Brown, once strong, never came close to the height that she held. During their chat, Houston relayed to the talk show mogul that many of the melees that sometimes played out publicly were related to the high level of celebrity she had. Houston spoke freely of what transpired behind closed doors during an interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2009, one of her final public appearances. With years of turbulence and rumors of drug abuse, Houston and Brown officially divorced in 2007. The biopic, which has not been cast yet, will mostly emphasize on the union of the two singers. “I’m beyond excited to have this opportunity to go behind the camera and into their world.” “Their humanity and bond fascinates us all,” Bassett expressed. In a statement, Bassett shared that she held the lives of Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston in “high regard” and was fascinated to be able to help bring the tale to television. It also includes moments of her sometimes controversial and plague filled marriage to another singer, Bobby Brown. The Houston story, currently being worked under the eponymous title Whitney Houston, will surround life the New Jersey born singer and her rise to fame, including the downside of that rise. The film is the directorial debut of Bassett, who last appeared on television as Marie LeVeau, a voodoo priestess, in American Horror Story: Coven. The two appeared together in the movie, Waiting to Exhale, back in 1995. On Thursday, Lifetime Television announced that it was in the beginning stages of preparing a biopic about the singer, directed by one of Houston’s former co-stars, Angela Bassett. A little more than two years following her passing, entertainer Whitney Houston is set to have a story of her life played out on the small screen.