Johnny Depp, Richard Branson Creating Series About Fame Studios

Rick Hall and Clarence Carter in Muscle Shoals, a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.
Companies helmed by Johnny Depp and Richard Branson are backing a new TV series based on the documentary Muscle Shoals, according to Variety.com. Depp’s Infinitum Nihil production company and Branson’s Virgin Produced are working with City Entertainment to create the series based around Rick Hall, the founder of Fame Studios who helped give birth to the Muscle Shoals sound (“I’ll Take You There,” “Brown Sugar,” “When a Man Loves a Woman”).
Variety reports Depp will produce the new series with the original documentary director/producer Greg Camalier; Christi Dembrowski of Infinitum Nihil; Virgin Produced’s Branson, Jason Felts and Justin Berfield; and City Entertainment’s Joshua D. Maurer and Alixandre Witlin.
The Muscle Shoals documentary was released by Magnolia Pictures in 2013, and premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
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