It was in mid-2011 when we first announced that a Sam Cooke biopic was in the works.
At the time, a script had already been written (by the screenwriters who penned Julie Taymor’s "Across The Universe," and "The Commitments" – Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais), which was an adaptation of Peter Guralnick’s 2005 bio, "Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke."
The news came 4 years after author Guralnick produced the award-winning documentary "Sam Cooke: Legend," said to be "the only authorized documentary on Cooke."
The film was to cover Cooke’s entire life (born in 1931, died in…
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