Late 80's German pop group, Milli Vanilli were ahead of their time with their coordinated dance moves and long, whipping hair. Like most one-two hit wonders, Milli Vanilli didn't stay famous too long, especially after it was exposed that they had never recorded their own songs and were really lip-syching.
A few years ago, Universal Pictures had put together a bit of footage they were planning on using for a documentary, but the project got axed, however, according to CNN, German director Florian Gallenberger will rewrite the picture with The Kennedy/Marshall Company ("The Bourne Ultimatum").
The director of the Milli Vanilli movie, Florian Gallenberger is not your average, behind the music-maker. Gallenberger has won an Academy Award for his short film "Quiero Ser" and his 2009 film "John Rabe" starring Steve Buscemi was also very successful at the German Film Awards that same year.
The film (no title yet) will center around Milli and Vanilli aka Rob and Fab, (neither of whom has ever been distinguished from the other in terms of their stage names) and will also feature the German record producer Frank Farian's character, the prouducer who discovered the two dancing at a club and decided to put them into the "Johnny Bravo" costume.
The story will center around the groups rise to the top with hits like, "Blame It On the Rain" and "Girl You Know It's True", and the fall of their career with the lip-synching scam after their prerecorded vocal track began skipping at a live performance. Milli Vanilli fled the stage and shortly after admitted the scam, causing a beratement of attack from fans and media.
After they were dropped by Arista, the rest of the story has been sadly told by VH1 pop-culture decade specials and tabloids; Rob Pilatus overdoesed in 1998 in Germany on the eve of a comeback show. Fab Morvan works as a DJ in Los Angeles and in 2003 he released a solo album with his own singing.
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