{"id":2321731,"date":"2026-03-10T17:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2321731"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:06:16","slug":"bon-jovi-music-biopic-in-the-works-at-universal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bon-jovi-music-biopic-in-the-works-at-universal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bon Jovi Music Biopic in the Works at Universal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Bon Jovi is getting the big screen treatment.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0291326\/\">Universal<\/a> has won a bidding war to back a feature film about the rock band behind hits like \u201cLivin\u2019 on a Prayer,\u201d \u201cYou Give Love a Bad Name\u201d and \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt13404870\/\">It\u2019s My Life<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3751958\/\">Cody Brotter<\/a>, who penned the upcoming crypto thriller \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt38066534\/\">Killing Satoshi<\/a>,\u201d starring <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0203457\/\">Pete Davidson<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000729\/\">Casey Affleck<\/a>, is writing the screenplay. A director has not been set, nor has casting for the group\u2019s key members, including singer and frontman <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000954\/\">Jon Bon Jovi<\/a>, keyboardist <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0116924\/\">David Bryan<\/a>, drummer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1139309\/\">Tico Torres<\/a>, guitarists <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1400422\/\">John Shanks<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3132883\/\">Phil X<\/a>, percussionist <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0103220\/\">Everett Bradley<\/a> and bassist <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2212764\/\">Hugh McDonald<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Formed in 1983, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1654945\/\">Bon Jovi<\/a> has been inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame. It\u2019s unclear what chapter from the band\u2019s history will anchor the movie, and whether it\u2019ll focus on one formative event, \u00e0 la \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31923069\/\">Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere<\/a>,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bon Jovi is getting the big screen treatment. Universal has won a bidding war to back a feature film about the rock band behind hits like \u201cLivin\u2019 on a Prayer,\u201d \u201cYou Give Love a Bad Name\u201d and \u201cIt\u2019s My Life.\u201d Cody Brotter, who penned the upcoming crypto thriller \u201cKilling Satoshi,\u201d starring Pete Davidson and Casey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2321732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2321731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Bon-Jovi-Music-Biopic-in-the-Works-at-Universal.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2321731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321733,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321731\/revisions\/2321733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2321732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}