Movie News: Milli Vanilli documentary first look teases controversial music duo's looming vocal storm UPDATE: on paramount now!

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Girl, you know it's true: The Milli Vanilli biopic first look is here

Get a first look at the stars of the new Milli Vanilli biopic, which follows the ill-fated pop duo who returned their Best New Artist Grammy after a vocal scandal.

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Milli Vanilli biopic first look teases controversial music duo's looming vocal storm

Girl You Know It's True is produced by Netflix's Dark masterminds Quirin Berg and Max Wiedemann.

By Joey NolfiSeptember 01, 2022 at 11:48 AM EDT

Girl, you know it's true: A Milli Vanilli biopic is on the way, and the studio behind the planned project has unveiled a first look at its stars.
Lead actors Tijan Njie and Elan Ben Ali appear in the new photo as Robert Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan, the faces of the ill-fated German-French pop duo who notched three No. 1 singles in the United States in the late '80s. It was later revealed that the pair had taken credit for vocals actually provided by several other singers, including John Davis, who died in 2021.
Matthias Schweighöfer will star as Milli Vanilli producer Frank Farian in the Leonine Studios- and Wiedemann & Berg–produced film, currently titled Girl You Know It's True.

Tijan Njie as Robert Pilatus and Elan Ben Ali as Fabrice Morvan in the upcoming Milli Vanilli biopic, 'Girl You Know It's True'

| CREDIT: DENIS PERNATH, COPYRIGHT: LEONINE STUDIOS / WIEDEMANN & BERG FILM
Simon Verhoeven will direct from a script he wrote. Producers on the film include Quirin Berg and Max Wiedemann, who previously worked on the Oscar-winning international film The Lives of Others, the Oscar-nominated movie Never Look Away, and Netflix's popular thriller series Dark.

The movie's plot follows the duo's scandal, which was allegedly orchestrated by Farian and saw the frontmen lip-syncing to the voices of other artists who were only credited as background vocalists on their official releases.
Milli Vanilli initially won a Grammy for Best New Artist in 1990, though they ultimately returned the award.

Controversial filmmaker Brett Ratner was previously working on a Milli Vanilli biopic, though that project was dropped by production company Millennium Media in February 2021, after its announcement received intense backlash in the wake of Ratner being accused of sexual misconduct in 2017. (Ratner "categorically" denied the allegations through his attorney Marty Singer at the time.)
Girl You Know It's True does not have a release date yet, but it is expected to film in Munich, Berlin, Capetown, and Los Angeles before wrapping in December.

 

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Does anybody really care?

 

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Does anybody really care?

We are in the streaming era.

They need content to fill space

They'll do a biopic on the Warner Robbins, Georgia dogcatcher if it means having something to put on the air.

 

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Blame It on the Rain - Wikipedia

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https://www.stereogum.com/2158368/the-number-ones-milli-vanillis-blame-it-on-the-rain/columns/the-number-ones/

 

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Will it need closed caption?

 

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I actually felt bad for them.

 

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I actually felt bad for them.

Im watching their documentary.....I'm too young to remember them other than them being considered a "joke". And yea I feel bad for them too. They didn't deserve that hate especially since all these higher up cac' s who made the money off them got off.

This whole time I had no idea Clive Davis was behind them. They leave that shit out of his story.

 

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I actually felt bad for them.

ALL THOSE WHITE PEOPLE WHO PAID AND ORCHESTRAYED THIS WHOLE THING WALKED AWAY COMPLETELY UNSCATHED

 

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ALL THOSE WHITE PEOPLE WHO PAID AND ORCHESTRAYED THIS WHOLE THING WALKED AWAY COMPLETELY UNSCATHED

Completely. Especially Clive Davis.

At the end of the documentary one of the guys on there said “who cares”….and I wonder that too. Why did they deserve hate? At the end of the day people liked the music and the music was why people liked them so why did it matter they didn’t sing it?

The Howard Stern in black face set me over…..attacks the them but not the ones who contributed to the lie.

 

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Completely. Especially Clive Davis.

At the end of the documentary one of the guys on there said “who cares”….and I wonder that too. Why did they deserve hate? At the end of the day people liked the music and the music was why people liked them so why did it matter they didn’t sing it?

The Howard Stern in black face set me over…..attacks the them but not the ones who contributed to the lie.

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Kaboom

 

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Milli Vanilli actually wanted to give their Grammy back before it was revoked but the press made it seem that it was 'forcibly reclaimed'

Milli Vanilli's Fab Morvan says 'most important misconception' was that they wanted to give their Grammy back but the press made it seem that it was 'forcibly reclaimed'

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Milli Vanilli's Fab Morvan says biggest 'misconception' was that they wanted to give Grammy back before it was revoked​

"But the press made it seem that the Grammy federation forcibly reclaimed it from us."
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Lester Fabian Brathwaite

Published on December 10, 2024 11:01PM EST




Milli Vanilli was the first and the only act to have their Grammy revoked, but according to the surviving member of the controversial German R&B group, they wanted to give it back in the first place.

More than 30 years after their scandal rocked the music industry, Milli Vanilli is finally seeing a bit of redemption thanks to a documentary and inclusion of their music in Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.

Milli Vanilli at the 1990 Grammys.
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Fab Morvan, one half of the disgraced group, opened up to Interview about this newest, unexpected chapter in his life, which includes renewed interest in Milli Vanilli's music, style, and story. One of the things he wanted to set straight was the whole Grammy situation.

On Feb. 21, 1990, Milli Vanilli won Best New Artist at the 32nd annual award ceremony, beating out acts Neneh Cherry, Soul II Soul, the Indigo Girls, and Tone Loc. Once it was revealed that Morvan and his partner Rob Pilatus were lip-synching on their records and in their live shows, the Grammy was rescinded by the Recording Academy.

Morvan claims that at a 1990 press conference, he and Pilatus wanted to give back their trophy, but the press got ahead of them.

Best New Artist Grammy winners: Where are they now?

"We did it to say, 'We know we were wrong, and we came here to let you know, Hey, we want to give this Grammy back.' That’s what we wanted, because we didn’t think we deserved it, and it didn’t feel like it belonged in our house," Morvan says.

"But when we informed them that we were going to give it back, the Los Angeles Times told NARAS [the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences] and then they jumped the gun," he continues. "This is one of the most important misconceptions for me. We actually wanted to give it back, but the press made it seem that the Grammy federation forcibly reclaimed it from us."

Morvan and Pilatus tried, unsuccessfully, to redeem themselves in the public eye, with Pilatus dying of an accidental drug overdose in 1998 at age 32, just as the duo were preparing to go on tour to promote a new album that was subsequently shelved.

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Morvan continued on his own, struggling to shake the stigma of Milli Vanilli, while the Svengali behind the project, Frank Farian, emerged practically unscathed. Farian died in January of this year at age 82.

However, thanks to Monsters, which also shed a revisionist light on the Menendez brothers' crimes, and the acclaimed 2023 doc, Milli Vanilli, Morvan is enjoying renewed time in the spotlight, including a fashion collaboration celebrating the iconic style of the defunct duo.

"Now I feel like I’ve got a chance to go into a new and exciting story," he tells Interview. "A new chapter, and people are slowly starting to read it. I’ve been working on that chapter for a long time."