Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson Form Ultimate Feel-Good Neil Diamond Tribute Band in First ‘Song Sung Blue’ Trailer

First things first: Lightning & Thunder are not a Neil Diamond screen band, they are Diamond “interpreters.” That’s what a Hugh Jackman‘s Mike Sardina learns from Kate Hudson‘s Claire Stengl successful the archetypal trailer for the pair’s upcoming vacation feel-good movie Song Sung Blue.

The pairing of the actors who some person heavy philharmonic acquisition — Jackman successful a fig of Broadway musicals and Hudson via her 2024 medium Glorious — comes successful a movie telling the real-life communicative of 2 struggling musicians who find their peculiar intent erstwhile they signifier a Diamond-covering duo.

“I’m not a songwriter, I’m not a enactment awesome — I conscionable privation to entertain people,” Jackman’s Sardina tells Hudson’s Stengl successful the sneak peek of the movie from writer-director Craig Brewer (Coming 2 America). “I don’t wanna beryllium a hairdresser,” Stengl tells him. “I wanna sing, I wanna dance, I wanna garden, I privation a cat.”

Desperate for thing “big” and “new,” Sardina picks up a transcript of Diamond’s 1972 Moods album, which, of course, features the singer’s Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 deed “Song Sung Blue,” with Stengl counseling that Sardina doesn’t privation to beryllium a specified Diamond impersonator. “You privation to beryllium a Neil Diamond interpreter,” she says. That is each it takes for the duo to find their groove, arsenic Hudson’s quality starts to bushed retired the melody of “Cherry Cherry” connected the soft portion Jackman strums on connected an acoustic guitar.

The movie is based connected a 2008 documentary of the aforesaid sanction telling the communicative of a Milwaukee hubby and woman duo, Mike and Claire Sardina, who formed the Diamond tribute enactment Lighting & Thunder. “Based connected a existent story, 2 down-on-their-luck musicians signifier a joyous Neil Diamond tribute band, proving it’s ne'er excessively precocious to find emotion and travel your dreams,” reads the synopsis of the film.

The movie duo hap upon the aforesaid clever moniker inspiring Stengl to laic a large buss connected Sardina. The inspiring communicative of their duo — complete with a leafage blower to marque Sardina’s hairsbreadth stroke conscionable close wrong the clubs they play — has the requisite overload of sequins, sing-alongs to “Sweet Caroline” and a stream of joyful (and painful) tears arsenic Jackman’s Sardina tells Stengl she is his “August Night, my September Morn, you’re my Cracklin’ Rosie.”

The movie owed retired connected Dec. 25 co-stars Michael Imperioli, Ella Anderson, instrumentalist King Princess, (in her archetypal movie role) Mustafa Shakir, Hudson Hensley, Fisher Stevens and Jim Belushi.

Hudson posted the trailer connected her Instagram connected Tuesday greeting (Sept. 9), writing, “At its core, this movie is astir love. About the dreams we chase, the chances we take, and the families who clasp america together. It’s astir the euphony that gets america through. Opening Christmas Day! We can’t hold to stock it with you 🎶.&...