Biopic of Legendary Director Bob Fosse on Tap at HBO

Emmy Award-nominated director Bryan Singer is attached to adapt Sam Wasson's upcoming Bob Fosse biography, Bye, Bye Life: The Loves and Deaths of Bob Fosse, for HBO Films, according to The Hollywood Reporter. No screenwriter or casting has been announced.

Singer's many film credits include The Usual Suspects, X-Men, X2, Apt Pupil, Superman Returns and Valkyrie. He has received four Emmy nominations for executive producing TV's House M.D.

Fosse first gained fame as a Broadway performer, choreographer and director. He received Tony Awards for his choreography of The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees, Redhead, Little Me, Sweet Charity, Pippin, Dancin' and Big Deal. He also earned an acting nomination for Pal Joey as well as a book author nomination for Chicago, among others. Fosse received an Academy Award for directing the film adaptation of Cabaret. His other film credits include the autobiographical All That Jazz, Lenny and Star 80. He died of a heart attack in 1987 at the age of 60.

Singer will executive produce the project alongside Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, who also oversaw the film adaptations of Hairspray, Chicago and the upcoming Footloose remake.