David O. Russell is about to direct the upcoming Linda Ronstadt biopic, starring Selena Gomez, Selection has confirmed.

The music biopic is at present in pre-production, with producers together with James Keach, who produced the 2019 documentary “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice,” and Ronstadt’s supervisor, John Boylan.

Gomez teased her involvement within the biopic earlier this week by posting an image of Ronstadt’s 2013 memoir “Easy Desires” on her Instagram story. No different casting has been introduced.

Ronstadt is a rustic, rock ‘n’ roll and Latin music legend identified for her Seventies albums “Coronary heart Like a Wheel” and “Easy Desires.” All through her profession she has launched 29 studio albums, received 11 Grammys, and was honored by each the Recording Academy and the Latin Recording Academy with Lifetime Achievement Awards. In 2014, Ronstadt was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame.

Russell is an Oscar-nominated director and author identified for critically acclaimed movies akin to “Three Kings” (1999), “The Fighter” (2010), “Silver Linings Playbook” (2011) and “American Hustle” (2013). His most up-to-date function, the 2022 interval thriller comedy “Amsterdam,” starred Christian Bale, Margot Robbie and John David Washington. Along with the Ronstadt biopic, O. Russell is engaged on “Tremendous Toys,” with Keke Palmer and Sacha Baron Cohen connected to star.

Ronstadt’s 2019 doc, directed by Rob Epstein (“The Instances of Harvey Milk”) and Jeffrey Friedman (“The Celluloid Closet”), chronicled the artist’s practically five-decade profession and domination of the country-rock style. In 2011, Ronstadt introduced her retirement, later revealing she is not capable of sing as a result of her progressive supranuclear palsy.