Friday, February 07, 2014

Trio Joins "Midnight Rider" Music Bio

 Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV Series alum Eliza DushkuBradley Whitford and Joel David Moore have all joined the the music biopic Midnight Rider: The Gregg Allman Story says Variety

A film adaptation of Gregg Allman's memoir "My Cross to Bear" The All-American Rejects singer Tyson Ritter and Wyatt Russell will play The Allman Brothers The duo will perform vocals, guitar, piano and organ throughout the film about the Southern rock group who hit it big in the 1960s and 1970s, as it dealt with numerous tragedies.

Dushku will play a small town Southern girl who inspires the song "Whipping Post." Whitford will play Allman's current manager Michael Lehman and Moore will play manager Bill McEuen, who discovered the brothers and brought them to Los Angeles.

Chad Lindberg will play the real-life roadie Joseph “Red Dog” Campbell. He died in 2011 William Hurt will play the present-day version of Gregg Allman.

Randall Miller is calling action using a script he wrote with Jody Savin.

Miller and Savin will also produce the pic.

Dushku and Whitford worked on Miller’s Bottle Shock a few years ago

Production starts later this month in Savannah.

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