As a hard-living singer, Joplin had numerous rock classics and became one of the faces of 1960's counterculture. She died of a heroin overdose in 1970. The film focuses on one day in her life.
Amy Adams is poised to play Joplin.
Ron Terry and wife Teresa Kounin Terryare writing the screenplay
Robert Katz and Andrew Sugerman are producing.
Fernando Meirelles and Catherine Hardwicke have previously been attached as directors.
A rival biopic with "Martha Marcy May Marlene" director Sean Durkin at the helm the film will chronicle the final six months of the singer’s life with flashbacks to her early career. Nina Arianda stars as Joplin.
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