Washington To Play Lou Rawls
Legendary singer Lou Rawls (right) is getting the biopic treatment. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Pathway Entertainment has acquired the script “Through the Eyes of a Son,” described as an uncensored take on the singer written by his son Lou Rawls Jr., and will develop it as a feature, with former “Grey’s Anatomy” star Isaiah Washington (left) attached to play the famed crooner.
Born in Chicago in 1933, Rawls sang in a range of styles that included blues, soul, funk and R&B, selling millions of albums and earning legions of fans, as well as the accolades of Frank Sinatra. He also, according to the script, had a traumatic life, enduring a poverty-stricken childhood and, in adulthood, intense marital strife.
“It’s the untold side of a glamorous life,” said Adel Nur, Washington’s manager. “It’s like ‘Ray’; we knew about the beautiful music, but we didn’t know about the turmoil and chaos in (Ray Charles’) life.”
