New Whitney Houston Biopic

Yaya Decosta, best known as the runner up on “America’s Top Model” and for her acting on “All My Children”, has been cast to play Whitney Houston in a Lifetime movie directed by Angela Basset.  Much of the movie will focus around Whitney and her tumultuous relationship and nearly 15-year marriage to singer Bobby Brown, which ended in divorce April 2007.  33 year old Arlen Escarpeta is set to play Bobby Brown.  Surprisingly, the film will not focus on Whitney’s death.  Director Angela Bassit, who starred with Whitney in the movie “Waiting To Exhale”, said she’s not interested in dragging her death into the spotlight again. The movie is being filmed now and will air next year.