Fan CastingThe Five Heartbeats (2025)

The Five Heartbeats is an upcoming 2025 musical drama film directed by Robert Townsend, who co-wrote the script with Keenen Ivory Wayans. The plot of the film is loosely based on the lives of several artists: The Dells, The Temptations, Four Tops, Wilson Pickett, James Brown, Frankie Lymon, Sam Cooke and others following the three decade career of the rhythm and blues vocal group The Five Heartbeats. The film depicts the rise and fall of a Motown inspired soul act through the eyes of one of the Heartbeats, Donald "Duck" Matthews. read more