Production for Lifetime's upcoming Whitney Houston biopic is in full swing.
While fans are most certainly looking forward to hearing Houston's classics in the portrayal of her life, her family has blocked the network from using her original tracks and Deborah Cox will be covering her music, as previously reported.
TMZ recently got a hold of Cox's rendition of "I Will Always Love You."
Back in 2000, Houston and Cox collaborated on a track called "Same Script, Different Cast."
As the press release notes, 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. 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 film is slated to air in 2015 and will be directed by actress Angela Bassett in her directorial debut.
"I really just want to tell a story about a boy and a girl who fell in love," Bassett recently told CNN. "And these are the words and this is the place, and these are the people on the outside, you know? And I want to be as honest as I can about doing that."
Yaya DaCosta will play Houston in the Lifetime adaptation of her life. Arlen Escarpeta has been cast as Bobby Brown and Yolonda Ross is set to portray Houston's friend Robyn Crawford.
Suzzanne Douglas will play Houston's mother Cissy, with Mark Rolston as Clive Davis, the record mogul who signed Houston to Arista Records.
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