Star Wars actress Naomi Ackie cast as Whitney Houston in biopic – 9TheFIX

Naomi Ackie is in final negotiations to portray Whitney Houston in Sony’s upcoming musical biopicI Wanna Dance With Somebody.
Stella Meghie (The Photograph) is directing the film from a screenplay by Bohemian Rhapsody writer Anthony McCarten. I Wanna Dance With Somebody is slated to release at Thanksgiving of 2022.
“We spent the better part of the last year in an exhaustive search for an actress who could embody Whitney Houston. Naomi Ackie impressed us at every stage of the process. I was moved…

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