The film is about the unlikely rise of celebrated singer-songwriterRobbie Williams.
Gracey wrote the script with first-time screenwriters Oliver Cole and Simon Gleeson.
Its a very original exercise in storytelling.
(L-R) Robbie Williams and Michael GraceyCourtesy of Julian Broad/Farrell Music Ltd.; CAA
Paul Currie, Gracey, Coco Xiaolu Ma, Jules Daly and Craig McMahon produced.
It happened fast, with 11 out of 12 of his studio albums charting No.
1 in the UK, and six of them among the top 100 biggest-selling albums there.
He has long been a provocative, outsized global personality, except stateside.
Barnum, which became a surprise blockbuster with a $434 million worldwide gross.
Paramount is keen on Gracey, and is alsodeveloping a musical adaptation of the bestsellerNevermoorthat Drew Goddard is adapting.
Williams hit tunes are part of the film package.
I want to do this in a really original way, Gracey told Deadline at the time.
I just want the audience to have that feeling.
Williams personality, ambition and insecurities will be on full display, unearthed in those long conversations.
Because of that, his is an incredibly relatable story.
That doesnt happen for the rest of us.
We would just leave the mic on record and chat for hours.
Inside the U.S., they hopefully will greet it the same way as when they metThe Greatest Showman.
They didnt know those songs, and yet people fell in love with them and made them their own.
I think it will be the same withBetter Man.
CAA Media Finance brokered the deal.
Rocket Science sold out all foreign territories for the film.
