Lee Daniels to make movie musical based on his own life

Lee Daniels, the Oscar-nominated director of Precious, The Butler, The Paperboy and TV series Empire, is to make an autobiographical movie musical.

Speaking to Billboard, Daniels, 59, said he was “in talks about doing a musical film about my life.

Of the planned movie, Daniels said: “It’ll have original music and sort of be like Fellini’s 8 1/2 or All That Jazz.”