Wham! May not Happen

So, I don’t know if you knew about this, but apparently, there have been talks about a movie based on the popular 1980s group Wham! Yup. Wham! As in George Michael’s career starter boy band that made the song “Wake me Up before you Go-Go” stick in everyone’s heads for weeks. Unfortunately, though, it looks like if you were hoping for this film, which their former manager Simon Napier-Bell was in talks to work out a $100 million deal for a biopic about the band, but it seems like it may or may not happen now, because George Michael himself has said “NO.”
George Michael on Wham fantastic

As can be expected when there’s about to be a biopic about, y’know, YOU, George Michael wants to be able to look at every script that’s going to be presented and be able to veto them if need be. This might present a problem, though, as Napier-Bell seems to want to keep a very tight leash on his new pet project, and the idea of Michael coming in on “his” territory is setting sparks off in the cinema world. As it stands, if Michael doesn’t like the script, he wants to be able to completely scrap the film, which Napier-Bell certainly doesn’t want, so at the moment, the fate of the Wham! biopic is currently hanging by a very small thread.