A Wendy Williams Biopic Is Coming To Tv
Wendy Williams is government producing a biopic about her life for Lifetime on the heels of her messy divorce from her estranged husband and former enterprise associate, Kevin Hunter.
The speak present host is making the film in collaboration with Will Packer, the mastermind behind the massively profitable Ladies Journey. Boomerang author Leigh Davenport is on board to jot down the script.
Web page Six reviews that, per the press launch, the venture explores Williams’ “scrappy upstart days in city radio to the success of her personal syndicated speak present.”
Williams shared extra particulars on the biopic and its supporting documentary along with her viewers throughout Wednesday morning’s episode of her morning speak present.
“I am such a Lifetime groupie,” she stated. “There’s additionally a documentary about my life. So, the film will likely be two hours after which the docuementary goes to be two hours… It is like a Wendy evening on Lifetime. The documentary is garthering folks in my life — not simply my mother and pop and siblings and stuff, however outdated bosses or associates and folks within the enterprise, to speak about me behind my again.”
She added that the biopic begins manufacturing this fall and so they have simply begun the casting course of. She specified that she needs “an unknown” actress to play her as she doesn’t need any recognizable faces “to distract from the story.”
The gossip queen’s lifetime of late actually has mimicked the plot of a Lifetime film. She just lately cut up from Hunter after he reportedly acquired his mistress, Sharina Hudson, pregnant whereas Williams was staying at a sober dwelling home. Previous, current and future, Wendy at all times has folks speaking!
The movie is scheduled to air on the high of 2020 on Lifetime.