On August 1st the new JAMES BROWN biopic, Get On Up, will hit the cinemas. The movie was directed by Tate Taylor, produced by Mick Jagger and Brian Grazer and features Chadwick Boseman, THE ROOTS’ Black Thought, Jill Scott, Aloe Blacc, Craig Robinson, Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis, Nelsan Ellis, and Dan Aykroyd. As usual for a biopic, Get On Up follows the protagonist’s life (and got surely pumped up with things that ‘might be interesting or more spectacular for people’). Get On Up follows the sex machine’s life from a poor childhoof in Augusta, becoming one of the most America’s music history’s most famous artists.
Watch the first trailer to JAMES BROWN’s biographical movie Get On Up: