Whitney Houston at the movies: Beautiful trailer for I Wanna Dance With Somebody biopic released

If Christmas parties are generally associated with Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston can animate the following parties. Thanks to the biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody, which is expected in French and American theaters on December 21, and whose first images have been released.

Discovered in Star Wars Episode IX or The Mastermind Season 3 Naomi Aki portrays the singer and actress who died ten years ago on February 11, 2012 in this feature film that promises to be discovered. “Whitney You Never Knew”. Certainly an ambitious program for a biopic around such a star, and the genre is littered with flaws.

But I Wanna Dance With Somebody was written by genre specialist Anthony McCarten. It is to him that we owe the scenarios of the beautiful history of the time, the two popes, the dark hour or the bohemian rhapsody, which we especially think of when we see images of what could be the climax of the story: the performance of Whitney Houston. At the Super Bowl, January 27, 1991.

As the Gulf War had just begun, the artist performed the American National Anthem in front of 73,813 fans and an estimated 115 million viewers worldwide. and transformed “Banner decorated with bones”, with warrior accents, in a song for black American freedom. A theme that we glimpse in the trailer and that we can find at the heart of the film.

Because it’s already very present in the work of director Cassie Lemons, to whom we owe a biopic about Harriet Traubman, who helped many slaves escape to the southern United States. or the Self Made mini-series, about Madam CJ Walker, a hair care pioneer for black women. With I Wanna Dance With Somebody, he’s looking at a much more mainstream persona, and it will be interesting to see how his film stands out from Kevin Macdonald’s excellent documentary that came out in 2018.