EXCLUSIVE: Tony and Grammy Award-winning, 3x Emmy and 2x Oscar-nominated singer, songwriter, actor, Leslie Odom, Jr., is about adapt the August 2024 Rolling Stone article “Dance With the Satan” by Alex Bhattacharji. Odom can even star within the horror characteristic.
Odom acquired the display rights to the article which explores Sammy Davis Jr.’s unlikely connection to Anton LaVey and the Church of Devil. The story follows what drew Davis into that world, and the overlap between the beloved entertainer and one in every of America’s most controversial figures. The challenge can also be a partnership with Rolling Stone Movies.
Venture’s blurb reads: “How a TV pilot referred to as Poor Satan begat a friendship between the performer, Sammy Davis Jr., and Anton Szandor LaVey, founder and excessive priest of the Church of Devil.”
The article is “a delicate story a couple of profoundly alienated Davis and his seek for acceptance,” says Bhattacharji. “It’s a rollicking trip that touches on advanced, well timed points: racial and sexual identification, politics, faith, popular culture, and the counter-culture,” he provides.
The information of the Rolling Stone choice comes on the heels of Odom’s closing efficiency within the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Hamilton which was on Nov. 26 as Aaron Burr, a job the actor originated in each Hamilton’s Off-Broadway and Broadway productions, incomes a Tony Award for Finest Main Actor in a Musical and a Grammy Award as a principal soloist on the Authentic Broadway Forged Recording.
Hamilton noticed a 76% enhance in weekly field workplace grosses upon Odom rejoining the solid. Most not too long ago, the musical hit its highest ever gross in its ten years on Broadway throughout Odom’s restricted engagement run.
Odom performed soul singer Sam Cooke within the 2020 Amazon movie adaptation of One Night time in Miami…, directed by Regina King which notched him a supporting actor Oscar nomination, along with a Finest Tune nom for the tune “Converse Now”. Further movie and tv credit embody Rian Johnson’s record-breaking 2022 Knives Out sequel, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller, for Netflix, The Many Saints of Newark, a prequel to David Chase’s award-winning HBO collection The Sopranos, The Exorcist: Believer for Blumhouse and Common Footage, Apple TV+’s Central Park, for which he earned an Emmy nomination, and lots of extra.
Odom Jr is repped by CAA, Untitled Leisure and Jackoway Austen Tyerman, and so on.
