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Rebel Wilson is entering the music industry.
The Australian actress and singer has signed a deal with Warner Music to set up her own highly personalized label, Rebellionaire. deadline report.
“Replace the ‘b’ in Billionaire with the ‘r’ in Rebel,” she says, collaborating with a recording group that heard songs from Wilson’s feature directorial debut, The Fat. told the publication about — comedy/musical set in Australia.
The first release from Rebellionaire will be the “The Deb” soundtrack, released in late 2024, coinciding with the film’s debut.
Wilson first met “The Deb” more than three years ago through a scholarship program sponsored by Sydney’s Australian Theater for Young People (ATYP).
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“Basically, one young man wins and then I coach them for a year,” the actress explained. “And as part of that, they have to plan the show, write the show, and hopefully have it done by the end of the year.”
The first project to emerge from this program was an Australian musical. fan girls, Wilson, 43, said it was very successful.
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“And I was like, ‘Wait a minute, I think there’s something here,'” she said of the idea that came to her. That led to a new deal with ATYP, giving Wilson the following rights: Delve into the work that has emerged from her scholarship program, especially those worthy of further development for stage, television and film.
“I hadn’t made a film in Australia for 12 years, so I was itching to go back and make an Australian film,” Wilson said of 2011’s A Few Best Men. Co-starred with the late Olivia Newton-John and Elizabeth Debicki.
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according to deadline“‘The Fat’ changes his life when one of them is expelled from a high school in the city and sent to play with peasant girls in a bush town far from the city limits. I’m drawing three girls.”
Wilson said of the Hannah Riley-scripted film, “While uniquely Australian, it could have a significant impact overseas.”
The writer-producer linked Riley with pop composer Meg Washington, and they wrote a number of songs for the stage production, which “was a deliberate developmental stage of the film and a way of testing the musical.” It was performed at the eponymous ATYP Rebel Theater. actress.
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Wilson points out that “Elvis” director Baz Luhrmann started down a similar path when he was working on his 1992 feature debut, “Strictly Ballroom.” His film was originally produced by him in 1984 as a short play set in the world of ballroom dancing.
The “Pitch Perfect” star oversaw every stage of the smash hit’s stage production and sent Riley and Washington for the film adaptation of two new songs, “Pretty Strong” and “F**k My Life.” was written. “There are about 100 fucking words in this movie,” Wilson said, joking, “Maybe that’s why this movie will never be bought by Disney.”
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Wilson teased that “The Deb” song would have a huge impact on a generation of TikTokers. She added that among the musical songs in the film, “Some songs have elements of hip-hop, some songs have Disney Princess-like music, and there’s one ballad she’s doing. There are two songs,” he teased.
“When I got to Australia, I couldn’t believe the talent,” said the film producer, who met cast members Natalie Abbott, Charlotte McInnes (who was in the original stage production) and Stevie Jean at auditions. said Amanda Ghost of She said, “I’ve never met three girls with such talented voices who blended so well together.”
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Later this summer, Wilson will travel to Sydney to begin pre-production, followed by filming, which will take place in urban and rural New South Wales in October and November.
“I’ve lived the Bush life,” Wilson laughs of the film’s latter filming location away from city life. “I grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney…I lived in a house with snakes and rats in the backyard. I know that life!”
