Michael Shannon Duets With Jessica Chastain In ‘George & Tammy’; John Hillcoat Directing Limited Series On George Jones & Tammy Wynette Marriage

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Shannon is closing a deal to join Jessica Chastain in George & Tammy, and John Hillcoat (The Road) is aboard is to direct all six episodes of a limited series on the tempestuous marriage of C&W music couple George Jones and Tammy Wynette.

Production begins tomorrow in North Carolina, and I’m told Shannon will do “blended singing” to capture the vocals of Jones — the process was used on Bohemian Rhapsody — while Chastain will do her singing of Wynette, who’s best known for hit song Stand By Your Man. Limited series is backed by Spectrum Originals and Paramount Network.

Abe Sylvia (Dead to Me) is the show’s creator and EP along with Andrew Lazar (American Sniper), Josh Brolin and Chastain. David C. Glasser, David Hutkin, Ron Burkle and Bob Yari are executive producing through 101 Studios (Yellowstone) along with writer and executive producer Bryan Goluboff. The series is based on the book, The Three of Us: Growing Up with Tammy and George, penned by the couple’s daughter, Georgette Jones. Sylvia and Goluboff wrote it.

Shannon’s most recent films include Knives Out and The Shape of Water, and he and Chastain will bring to life the union between a true country music power couple, whose relationship inspired songs such as We’re Gonna Hold On and Golden Ring. When daughter Georgette was born, she was treated as C&W music loyalty. The family was broken, however. Jones drank, and his marriage to Wynette dissolved six years later. This took a great toll on the couple and the daughter, who was just four when her parents split, and had her own problems before finding her own voice felt as an accomplished singer.

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