Just a few days ago, Selena Gomez began teasing a role as singer Linda Ronstadt by posting an image of her 2013 memoir, Simple Dreams. Soon after, Gomez was confirmed to be playing Ronstadt in an upcoming biopic. And now we know it’ll be David O. Russell who will be directing her in that film.
Ronstadt is an 11-time Grammy winner, known for rock, country, and Latin hits. Like Gomez, she is of Mexican descent. The film has Ronstadt’s manager John Boylan aboard, as well as James Keach who produced the Ronstadt doc, The Sound of My Voice.
This will be Gomez’s first major movie lead role in years. Other than voicing all four Hotel Transylvania movies, her last leading screen roles were in 2019 in Woody Allen’s A Rainy Day in New York and Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die. She has been starring in Hulu’s hit series Only Murders In the Building for three seasons with a fourth on the way.
Russell has previously earned three Oscar nominations for Best Director, for The Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook, and American Hustle. However, he’s coming off the disastrous Amsterdam, which was a critical and box office bomb. He has Super Toys with Keke Palmer and Sacha Baron Cohen coming up, but this Ronstadt movie may take priority.
