Filmmaker Lee Daniels has tackled many subjects: slavery, domestic abuse, hip-hop, and American presidents. Now he tackles perhaps his most challenging subject yet: Lee Daniels.
In an interview with Billboard, the director of Precious, The Paperboy and The Butler let slip that he is currently “in talks” on an autobiographical musical project. “My publicist will kill me, but I’m in talks about doing a musical film about my life,” he told the magazine.
“I’ve had a pretty interesting life,” he continued. “I’ve come from the projects. I’ve been homeless.”
Daniels did not expand further on what form the musical would take, though he said it would have original music and “sort of be like Fellini’s 8 1/2 or All That Jazz” – both films which took a semi-autobiographical look at an artistic life.
In the meantime, Daniels is still busy with his hit TV show Empire (a title we’re rather fond of, we must admit), and is currently prepping another small-screen show, entitled Star.
Daniels did not state whether he had requested permission from himself for the rights to his own life.