Originally announced in 2019, the long-awaited KISS biopic “Shout It Out Loud” is finally moving forward. The film has already reportedly cast Nick Jonas to portray Paul Stanley and is set to be directed by McG – known for “Charlie’s Angles,” “We Are Marshall,” “Terminator Salvation,” and a long list of music videos for bands including Korn and Smash Mouth.
Now, while attending KISS’ Kruise event in Las Vegas this past weekend, McG shared an update on what fans can expect from the movie.
“I think KISS is the most exciting rock ‘n’ roll band in history, and because of that, we owe the KISS Army the most exciting film in history,” he said.
“I think with this band, the fact that this band broke on a live record, [they] broke on a live record because people want to feel what it was like to go to the show,” McG added. “My goal is to give everybody something you can go to the theater and just have your face melted and just feel the heat coming off the stage – and for that matter, coming off the screen – which is what I get so excited about at a KISS show.”
He continued: “Then, when it gets to the streamers and you can watch it at home and live this incredible story that is far more strange than fiction – two buddies, a cab driver [driving] to Madison Square Garden [saying], ‘One day, that’s going to be me,’ and a substitute teacher whose mother is a Holocaust survivor. Against all odds, didn’t get it done as Wicked Lester, put the paint on, developing personas, it’s the ultimate rock n’ roll fantasy, and it’s going to kick your f*ckin’ ass.”
McG went on to say that his goal is to portray KISS as music industry disruptors.
“I think more than any other band in the history of rock ‘n’ roll, there is rock ‘n’ roll before KISS, and there is rock ‘n’ roll after KISS… Rock ‘n’ roll was pretty straightforward until KISS came along and blew it up, literally and figuratively, with bombs and pyrotechnics and spitting blood and costumes and fun and explosiveness and providing a life that was larger than our own… Taylor Swift has pyrotechnics. That all traces back to KISS. This is the inflection point in the movie where the world was forever changed through the power of rock ‘n’ roll.”
