Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Biopic “Relax” planned about British cult band
Frankie Goes To Hollywood star Holly Johnson’s memoir is being made into a movie.
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The band story of Frankie Goes To Hollywood will be filmed. Callum Scott Howells stars as the frontman.
Fans of Frankie Goes To Hollywood have every reason to be happy: the British pop group is not only celebrating their stage comeback, but is also set to be the focus of a new movie in the near future. Named after one of their biggest hits, this one is called “Relax”. The plot is based according to the industry portal “Deadline” on the memoirs of frontman Holly Johnson (63). The actor Callum Scott Howells (24), known from the series “It’s A Sin”, should embody him.
Screenplay and direction are by Bernard Rose (62). As the director of the former “Relax” scandal video, which celebrated homosexual love, he is very familiar with the band’s career. He sums it up: “Their epic rise, which propelled the then deep underground S+M and LGBTQ club scene into the limelight, is the energetic and moving tale of underdogs winning a victory for the ages.” His goal is to “bring this innocent and brave world of 1984 back to life for a new audience of today.”
Tim Bevan (64) and Eric Fellner (63) from Working Title and Luc Roeg (61) from Independent Entertainment act as producers. “Working Title always strives to promote British stories, so the opportunity to showcase Frankie Goes To Hollywood, a British band that revolutionized the British music industry, was tailor-made for us,” explains Bevan. Adds Fellner, “Frankie Goes To Hollywood was a groundbreaking band that paved the way for many of today’s young artists.”
Frankie Goes To Hollywood are back after 36 years
With songs like “Relax” (1983), “Two Tribes” (1984) and “The Power of Love” (1984), Frankie Goes To Hollywood is one of the most successful and style-defining music groups of the 1980s. And this despite the fact that the band has only released two studio albums since its founding in 1980 and broke up in 1987 due to internal disputes.
In 2004, the five founding members Holly Johnson (63), Brian Nash (59), Paul Rutherford (63), Mark O’Toole (57) and Peter Gill ( 59). However, there was no joint performance. This finally took place on May 7th this year at the opening ceremony of the Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool.