Lifetime's Aaliyah Biopic Finds It's Missy Elliott And Timbaland
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Newcomers Chattrisse Dolabaille and Izaak Smith join star Alexandra Shipp in the TV movie
You can't have a movie about Aaliyah without her musical mentors.
A network representative told TheWrap that Lifetime's Aaliyah biopic has cast Chattrisse Dolabaille and Izaak Smith as producer-rappers Missy Elliott and Timbaland, respectively.
Dolabaille is a newcomer to Hollywood. She's a Canadian actress, singer and dancer. Watch her video resume below.
Izaak Smith, on the other hand, was a contender on “So You Think You Can Dance Canada.” He has appeared in “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief” and “Mirror Mirror” as a dancer. He also played Cal Rice on popular Canadian series, “Tower Prep,” and Danny on digital series “Totally Amp'd.”
Aaliyah worked with Timbaland and Missy Elliott on her second album, “One In A Million,” which sold 3.7 million copies in the United States and more than eight million copies worldwide.
In addition to Dolabaille and Smith, the production has cast Rachael Crawford and Sterling Jarvis as Aaliyah's parents Diane and Michael Haughton; Lyriq Bent as her uncle and president of her label, Barry Hankerson; Anthony Grant as Damon Dash; and A.J. Saudin and Jesse Sukunda will play the older and younger version of Aaliyah's brother Rashad, respectively.
The working title for the television movie is “Aaliyah: Princess of R&B” and is based on the bestselling book “Aaliyah: More Than a Woman” by former Time music editor Christopher Farley.
The film will be produced by Aaliyah Productions, Inc., with Wendy Williams, Howard Braunstein (“The Informant!”) and Debra Martin Chase (“Sparkle”) executive producing. Bradley Walsh (“Turn the Beat Around”) is directing, working from a script by Michael Elliot (“Brown Sugar”). It is filming this summer for a fall premiere.
The proposed television movie about the singer, who died in a plane crash in 2001 at age 22, had been mired in controversy with Aaliyah fans and her family expressing disapproval of the project. There was even a fan petition seeking to shut the production down.
Fans believed that Disney Channel star Zendaya Coleman wasn't the right choice to play Aaliyah. She would later leave the project. Also, Aaliyah's family expressed to TheWrap that it was against the movie because they felt it was more suited to the big screen.
Blackfilm.com was the first to break these castings.
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Lol. They did those 2 fatties a solid.
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Girl way too pretty to play missy
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Wtf! Smh
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And that ? light skin.
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Lmfao
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What in the actual ? ?
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They hired an asian ? to play missy? lmaoooooooooooooooo
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Bookman was busy or something?
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This movie bootleg
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? , they need to quit playing lol.
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Stab the casting director. Shawty looks like a better fit to play Aaliyah herself.
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The ? ....
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Stomp Johnson wrote: »Stab the casting director. Shawty looks like a better fit to play Aaliyah herself.
Can't wait till news breaks that they've casted Ving Rhames as R. Kelly.
That ? is going to come on the screen with some Arby's lol. -
LOL, that casting choice doesn't even make sense.
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pure comedy
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Stomp Johnson wrote: »Stab the casting director.
lol. Wendy Williams.
She the Executive Producer, cast the Aaliyah role and has already said she don't give a ? who plays who or about Aaliyah's music cause that what the albums are for. The movie doesn't have the rights to it anyway. She said she is only interested in what happened with R. Kelly and what happened with Damon Dash.
Skip to 10:50
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Stomp Johnson wrote: »Stab the casting director.
lol. Wendy Williams.
She the Executive Producer, cast the Aaliyah role and has already said she don't give a ? who plays who or about Aaliyah's music cause that what the albums are for. The movie doesn't have the rights to it anyway. She said she is only interested in what happened with R. Kelly and what happened with Damon Dash.
Skip to 10:50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAFIDDQarjs
That's why nobody likes her except for ratchets and wannabe and aspiring gold diggers. -
No one thought about hitting Kali Hawk up when casting for Aaliyah?
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Let me find out @Stew or @grouchy greg playing Magoo.......................I'll nominate them for L of the year.
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Seems legit. -
Stomp Johnson wrote: »Stab the casting director.
lol. Wendy Williams.
She the Executive Producer, cast the Aaliyah role and has already said she don't give a ? who plays who or about Aaliyah's music cause that what the albums are for. The movie doesn't have the rights to it anyway. She said she is only interested in what happened with R. Kelly and what happened with Damon Dash.
Skip to 10:50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAFIDDQarjs
? this ? needs to die officially lol
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Who they trying to fool?
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dude on the right could play drake, but thats about it. lol
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Don't make no Damn sense lmao