“(Touchstone) knew there are hardly any bankable female stars,” says Chapin. Coldly commercial considerations were also at work. Having Turner play herself was never seriously considered, according to Chapin. Brian Gibson–in what Chapin characterizes as “a blessing from heaven”–parachuted in as director, and the movie was finally under way.Ĭasting the role of Tina was, predictably, a formidable undertaking. Then Van Peebles withdrew from the project to direct “Posse,” which opened Friday. Lanier’s 17 drafts notwithstanding, Touchstone was apparently pleased. “It was Kate who had the notion of attacking it like a legend–a heroine on a quest and these were her trials,” says Chapin. Lanier was hired partly to bring a woman’s perspective to the story. The facts weren’t adding up to anything exciting.” “It was very structural, straightforward. “They couldn’t get the movie to come to life,” says Chapin. Earlier drafts of the script, according to Chapin and Lanier, had tended toward rigid biography. The project drifted through yet another screenplay before coalescing around producers Chapin and Barry Krost, director Mario Van Peebles and Lanier. “They said they wanted it to be sort of an upbeat thing,” says Loder. Former Rolling Stone reporter and current MTV news anchor Kurt Loder, the co-author of “I, Tina,” was subsequently approached by the studio but passed on the project. Touchstone originally assigned the script to Howard Ashman, a Tina fan and the Oscar-winning lyricist for Disney’s “Little Mermaid” and “Beauty and the Beast,” who wrote two drafts of the screenplay before his death in 1991.
“We didn’t believe this movie was ever going to be made,” says Davies, the movie’s executive producer. Kate Lanier’s script alone went through 17 drafts.
And I got out of there.” “What’s Love Got to Do With It” chewed through seven years, three screenwriters and two directors before it was finally greenlighted last fall on a hurry-up shooting schedule to get the movie into theaters in time for summer. “You either try to kill yourself or you say, ‘It’s time to go.’ I did both. “It becomes harder and harder,” she says. You can put in more and more, but it’s kind of an emotional Vietnam.” But of course you can’t fix somebody else. She wanted to make it better for him and be a star for him. Tina had been deserted and treated unfairly herself. “In my view what Tina got drawn into was the Ike who had been hurt and ill-treated by the world. “Meeting Ike Turner, who had been deserted, created a kind of lock-and-key mechanism of their relationship,” he explains. But Gibson thought he recognized other, darker threads in the fabric of Ike and Tina’s relationship. In the end, Turner’s promise to Ike became a refrain running throughout the film. “I was a church girl from Tennessee,” says Turner. “It was another time, another frame of mind,” she says by way of explaining the filmmakers’ “not being able to understand that some people can give their word and keep it.” The fact that she, at least in the beginning, was getting something from Ike was another consideration. Tina Turner’s Story Through a Disney Prism : The singer’s film biography, ‘What’s Love Got to Do With It,’ focuses on her turbulent relationship with her mentor and ex-husband Ike Turner as well as her triumphant comeback. In the United Kingdom, it grossed nearly £10 million.įilm Review for What’s Love Got to Do with It In the United States, the film grossed almost $40 million and around $20 million in rentals. The film’s soundtrack featured the hit song “I Don’t Wanna Fight”, which went to number one in seven countries. The screenplay was adapted by Kate Lanier from the book I, Tina written by Tina Turner and Kurt Loder.īoth Ike and Tina Turner assigned rights to Lanier for their lives to be dramatized in the film. It stars Angela Bassett as Tina Turner and Laurence Fishburne as Ike Turner. What’s Love Got to Do with It is a 1993 American biographical film directed by Brian Gibson, loosely based on the life of Tina Turner. In love with Ike and determined not to leave in the way her mother had, she finds herself the target of increasing violence from her unstable husband who can’t see who is making the band such a success. She becomes the band’s singer, his wife, and mother to his children – not all hers. Louis to live with the mother who had walked out when she was small, the now teenage Anna Mae soon attracts the attention of pop group leader Ike Turner. Taglines: The triumphant true-life story of Tina Turner!Īnna Mae Bullock always had a special voice.
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