Music Video and Action Film Director McG Reportedly in Final Talks to Take Over Kiss Biopic

It looks like the Kiss biopic Shout It Out Loud has a new director and it’s exactly the right person for the project, for better or worse. According to Deadline, world-renowned known music video and action film director Joseph McGinty Nichol, better known as McG, is in final talks to direct the Kiss biopic.

For those who don’t know who McG is, or, like me, forgot how much you used to make fun of this dude in the mid-2000s, here’s a bit of a rundown: McG, he rose to fame after being friends with Sugar Ray and co-writing songs with them and, eventually, directing one of their videos, which started his career in music videos including such illustrious projects as The Offspring’s “Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)” and Smash Mouth’s “All Star.”

His first big feature film was the 2000 Charlie’s Angels film—the one with Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu—and he’s since been responsible for such cinematic mistakes as We Are Marshall, Terminator: Salvation,  and Family Switch. So it’s with that caliber of talent that McG enters the project. McG’s “What is subtlety?” approach to filmmaking is basically the same philosophy behind Kiss’ entire career, so sure, why not let McG direct a Kiss biopic?

According to Blabbermouth, Kiss’ manager Doc McGhee had explained back in 2021 that Shout It Out Loud was supposed to be about the first four years of Kiss before they became famous leading up to the famous Cadillac High concert in October 1975. There’s no word on whether McG intends to stick to that original framing or if the replacement of directors means a whole new creative team that will start from scratch.

Shout it Out Loud was originally slated for release this year, but considering it’s getting a new director in September, I’m thinking it might not be until next year that we get to see McG’s auteur vision for a Kiss biopic. I don’t know how, but somehow I think machine guns are going to be involved.