#Who wrote proud mary movie

Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Since its debut, the trailer has earned over 2 million views on YouTube.įogerty admits he knows nothing else about the film besides the fact that the marketing has used his song and that the film features “a black woman who is also an assassin.” You can read the musician’s full statement about “Proud Mary” in the post below. The trailer even cuts to match the beats of Fogarty’s chorus. The entire two-minute-and-ninteen-second promo is built around Fogarty’s song. Sony Pictures Entertainment relied heavily on Fogarty’s song in the marketing for “Proud Mary,” not only in the tagline but also in the official trailer that was released last July. In a 1969 interview, John Fogerty said that he wrote this song two days after he was discharged from the National Guard. Proud Mary has, over the years, been covered by a number of artists. It was first recorded by rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival (in which Fogerty played lead guitar and sang lead vocals) on the 1969 album Bayou Country.

#Who wrote proud mary movie

“The movie poster has my lyrics changed to read….’killing for the Man every night and day.” Proud Mary is a song written by American singer and guitarist John Fogerty.

“No one ever asked me about using my song this way, or even about the meaning of Proud Mary,” Fogerty wrote. Fogerty explains that “Proud Mary” was written as “a metaphor about leaving painful, stressful things behind for a more tranquil and meaningful life” and has nothing to do with “a story about killing people for money,” referring to the Henson film.