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The Bedtime Stories director will produce the project alongside Memoirs Of A Geisha's Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
Bye Bye Birdie is centred on the character of Conrad Birdie, a popular rock star based loosely on Elvis Presley. Birdie is drafted into the army but agrees to do one last publicity stunt involving kissing a teenage fan on The Ed Sullivan Show.
The original 1958 musical has spawned several film and television adaptations, most notably the 1963 movie starring Dick Van Dyke.
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