Exclusive: Shout! Studios, the film and entertainment production and distribution arm of Shout! Factory, along with producers Sean Fernald and Cass Paley, TwentyOne 14 Media and Doc McGhee’s McGhee Entertainment, have obtained exclusive film rights to the story of Johnny Bragg, the prisoner and doo-wap singer from the 1950s.
Bragg rose to fame within the Tennessee State Penitentiary while serving six consecutive 99-year sentences at 17 for crimes he did not commit.
As part of Shout!’s deal with the Bragg estate, the film will follow Bragg in prison and how his unique singing style catches the attention of the prison staff, specifically the warden, who came up with the idea to have Bragg and his singing group tour the prison circuit under armed guard. This eventually led to the group recording demos with Sam Philips’ Sun Records, the iconic Memphis label that launched Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
Bragg rose to fame within the Tennessee State Penitentiary while serving six consecutive 99-year sentences at 17 for crimes he did not commit.
As part of Shout!’s deal with the Bragg estate, the film will follow Bragg in prison and how his unique singing style catches the attention of the prison staff, specifically the warden, who came up with the idea to have Bragg and his singing group tour the prison circuit under armed guard. This eventually led to the group recording demos with Sam Philips’ Sun Records, the iconic Memphis label that launched Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
- 9/23/2021
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
So long, Lucas Scott and hello, Sam Phillips!
Chad Michael Murray is back on our TV screens in tonight's series premiere of Cmt's Sun Records, and he's got one very important goal in mind: "We're bringing sexy back from the '50s," the One Tree Hill alum dished exclusively to Et.
Set in Memphis during the tumultuous early days of the civil rights movement, Sun Records tells the untold story of the the birth of rock ‘n’ roll. Murray plays legendary record producer Sam Phillips, and the 35-year-old actor confessed that his role in this latest series has been a complete "labor of love."
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"Everybody knows the icons -- the Jerry Lee Lewis, the Elvis, the Johnny Cash -- but to now see it kind of through Sam's eyes [is new,]" he explains. "He's the man that found all of this and that started rock-n-roll and he was...
Chad Michael Murray is back on our TV screens in tonight's series premiere of Cmt's Sun Records, and he's got one very important goal in mind: "We're bringing sexy back from the '50s," the One Tree Hill alum dished exclusively to Et.
Set in Memphis during the tumultuous early days of the civil rights movement, Sun Records tells the untold story of the the birth of rock ‘n’ roll. Murray plays legendary record producer Sam Phillips, and the 35-year-old actor confessed that his role in this latest series has been a complete "labor of love."
More: Chad Michael Murray and Wife Sarah Roemer Expecting Baby No. 2
"Everybody knows the icons -- the Jerry Lee Lewis, the Elvis, the Johnny Cash -- but to now see it kind of through Sam's eyes [is new,]" he explains. "He's the man that found all of this and that started rock-n-roll and he was...
- 2/23/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
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