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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – The screenwriter behind the unconventional Bob Dylan film "I'm Not There" will help bring the life of Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson to the big screen.
The independent project has secured Wilson's life rights as well as those of his wife, Melinda Wilson.
It will be written by Oren Moverman, who also co-wrote and directed "The Messenger" and is currently working on a Kurt Cobain project for Universal Pictures.
The film will examine Wilson's musical process, his struggles with mental illness, and his perseverance with the support of his wife.
The Beach Boys were the subject of a 2000 TV movie, "The Beach Boys: An American Family," in which Frederick Weller played Wilson. He was also the subject of a documentary directed by music producer Don Was, "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times."
Fox has also been developing a movie, written by Susannah Grant ("Erin Brockovich"), that would tell a fictional tale about southern California's 1960s surfing scene that would play out against Beach Boys songs.
Wilson wrote more than 15 Top 40 hit singles and the groundbreaking 1966 "Pet Sounds" album before suffering a nervous breakdown during the making of the follow-up album "Smile." He documented his traumatic childhood in his 1991 memoir "Wouldn't It Be Nice."
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