Universal Pictures has a Bon Jovi biopic in pre-production, with frontman Jon Bon Jovi fully on board and the band’s full music library available to the project. Deadline broke the news. Cody Brotter, whose Black List script Drudge put him on the map and whose recent credits include Doug Liman’s crypto-thriller Killing Satoshi and a Mike Judge music biopic, has been tapped to write the screenplay.
The producing team is equally strong. Kevin J. Walsh, whose credits include the Oscar-winning Manchester by the Sea and The Instigators, joins Gotham Chopra, co-founder of Religion of Sports and director of the acclaimed 2024 Hulu docuseries ‘Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story’. Chopra already has deep familiarity with the band’s arc, having chronicled everything from their origins to Jon’s vocal struggles during the 2022 tour. That foundation gives the film a meaningful head start.
The biopic traces the band’s formative years through their rise to global stadium headliners. No release date has been announced, with the project still in pre-production. The film lands as Bon Jovi continue a significant run of activity, including this summer’s headline shows at Madison Square Garden, Wembley Stadium, Croke Park, and Murrayfield Stadium, with Jon signaling a much larger tour on the horizon for 2027.