Rihanna’s transition into film continues. The pop star, who voiced the lead character in forthcoming DreamWorks animated film Home and landed her first acting role in 2012 flop Battleship, is due to be the subject of a music documentary made by Peter Berg, who directed the Friday Night Lights film and worked on the subsequent TV series.
The film is set to be an “unfiltered look into Rihanna’s life and how she’s ascended to become a global icon”, reported Deadline. Berg cited DA Pennebaker’s 1967 Bob Dylan documentary Don’t Look Back as an influence on this new project, which he said he hopes will be “much more a character study than a music film”.
Berg and Rihanna first worked together when he directed the pop singer in Battleship. This currently unnamed film is set to examine Rihanna’s rise to fame, and will be released through Berg’s newly founded production company, Film 45.
Rihanna was named the most-streamed female artist on Spotify in the lead-up to International Women’s Day last Sunday, 8 March, and recently shared snippets of songs Higher, Towards the Sun and American Oxygen on Instagram.
