EXCLUSIVE : Nick Jonas is near closed on a deal to star as KISS lead singer Paul Stanley in Shout It Out Loud , the McG -directed film about the formation of the venerable hard rock band in the 1970s. The film will go into production at the end of the year or in early 2026, with STX fully financing. The most recent draft is by Darren Lemke.

I’m told that Jonas will do his own singing, and he’ll need time to train to replicate the jet-engine vocals of Stanley. Besides headlining in the sibling band The Jonas Brothers, Jonas has also proven his chops onscreen. His rise began with the 2016 toxic masculinity hazing drama Goat . He shone in the MMA series Kingdom , as a young gay man who grows up in a family of fighters and has to hide his sexuality from a domineering father.

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