Music producer Clive Davis is working with the estate of late singer Whitney Houston for the biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody.

Anthony McCarten, the writer behind the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, will pen the screenplay, while Stella Meghie, who was behind the Issa Rae romance The Photograph, will direct.

Pat Houston will produce the movie on behalf of the Houston Estate, along with Davis, Primary Wave Music's Larry Mestel, Denis O’Sullivan and McCarten.