Variety is reporting that the Nashville-based company 821 Entertainment Group, alongside Strike Entertainment, has embarked on adapting the life of country music icon Hank Williams into a big-screen film. Strike Entertainment partner Marc Abraham will be writing the script based on the book “Hank Williams: The Biography” by Colin Escott, who will be an associate producer on the project.

Williams, born in 1923 in during the Depression, was one of the most most influential country music singer-songwriters in music, with 11 No. 1 hits over time, including “Cold, Cold Heart,” “Your Cheatin’ Heart” and “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry.” He also suffered from spina bifidia, which purportedly led to his addictions to alcohol and morphine. He died in 1953 at the age of 29.

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By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: Variety.com)