Milli Vanilli Biopic ‘Girl You Know It’s True’ First Look Revealed By Leonine Studios

With production currently underway on its Milli Vanilli biopic, Leonine Studios has revealed the first look on Girl You Know It’s True produced by Wiedemann & Berg Film.

Newcomers Tijan Njie and Elan Ben Ali are set to portray the lead roles of Robert Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan. Matthias Schweighöfer is starring as German music producer Frank Farian. The cast also includes Graham Rogers as Milli Vanilli’s U.S. assistant Todd and Bella Dayne as Milli, Farian’s right-hand woman.

You can see the first images below of Elan Ben Ali as Fabrice and Tijan Njie as Robert, followed by an image of Matthias Schweighöfer as Farian:

Simon Verhoeven is directing the pic, with Quirin Berg and Max Wiedemann producing. This marks yet another collaboration of the successful trio that has previously teamed up on four No. 1 German box office hits. Kirstin Winkler is overseeing production as executive producer.

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The film centers on the true story of the notorious scandal involving dancers Robert Pilatus’ and Fabrice Morvan’s rise to fame in the late 1980s as pop sensation Milli Vanilli. Orchestrated by music producer Frank Farian they become world stars with three number 1 hits in the US. But only a small circle of insiders know that the duo never sang a word and solely pretended. At the height of their fame, Milli Vanilli win the Grammy Award but the situation behind the scenes escalates. When the truth is revealed, they stare into the abyss while the world witnesses one of the biggest scandals in music history.

Kevin Liles, member of the band Numarx and legendary co-founder and CEO of music company 300 Entertainment is executive producing alongside co-producers Simon Verhoeven, Frank Farian and Stefan Gärtner. Associate producers are Jasmin Davis, daughter of the late John Davis and Brad Howell, who were the true voices of Milli Vanilli. Milli Vanilli’s former assistant Todd Headlee, Carmen Pilatus, sister of the late Rob Pilatus, and Ingrid Segieth aka Milli are also attached as associate producers.

The film is produced by Leonine Studios and Wiedemann & Berg Film, in co-production with Sentana Film, SevenPictures and Mediawan. The production is financially supported by Deutscher Filmförderfonds, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmförderungsanstalt, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, MFG Baden Württemberg and Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Digitales.

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