Whitney Houston is getting a Lifetime movie.
Us Weekly reported that the network is working on a film based on the life of the late singer. Actress Angela Bassett will make her directorial debut for the Lifetime Original Movie based on Houston and ex-husband Bobby Brown's unstable relationship.
"[The film] chronicles the headline-making relationship between the iconic singer, actress, producer and model and singer-songwriter Bobby Brown - from the time they first met at the very height of their celebrity, to their courtship and tumultuous marriage," according to a press release. "Throughout it all, difficulties followed the superstar couple while they dealt with the overwhelming rewards and consequences of the fame and fortune created by Whitney's meteoric rise that would soon overshadow them both."
The seven-time Grammy winning singer was married to Brown from 1992 to 2007 and the two have a one child together, daughter Bobbi Kristina, who is now 21. Houston and Brown co-starred on the Bravo reality show "Being Bobby Brown" in 2005.
Houston and Bassett co-starred together in the 1995 romantic drama film "Waiting to Exhale." According to Entertainment Weekly, Bassett, who recently starred in the third installment of Ryan Murphy's "American Horror Story," will not star in the Lifetime film.
"I have such regard for both Whitney's and Bobby's amazing talents and accomplishments, and I feel a responsibility in the telling of their story," Bassett said in a statement. "Their humanity and bond fascinates us all. I'm beyond excited to have this opportunity to go behind the camera and into their world."
In 2012, Houston was found dead of an "accidental drowning" just hours before she was scheduled to attend Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy party. The singer had a long history of substance abuse.
"I am so thankful to have been enveloped by the warmth of Whitney's great talents," Bassett said in a statement expressing her grief over the loss. "They were undeniable and vast. Whatever her burdens, she has at last laid them down and picked up instead a crown. For truly, she was and will ever be for us - who were so captivated by her strengths - unparalleled."
Larry Sanitsky will reportedly serve as executive producer, with Shem Bitterman as the show's writer. Last year, Bassett and Lifetime collaborated on an original movie "Betty & Coretta," the real-life story about Coretta Scott King, wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, and Dr. Betty Shabazz, wife of Malcolm X - two women who form a lifelong friendship after the assassinations of their husbands
The film based on Houston's life is scheduled for release in 2015.
