First Teaser of Lifetime's Aaliyah Biopic

Hot on the heel's of their "Unauthorised" biopic about the cast and the making of the popular '90's teen show, Saved By The Bell, US channel Lifetime have revealed the first teaser from their upcoming tribute and not-at-all-shameless-exploitation-on-nostalgia-and-a-young-singers-death television-movie Aaliyah: Princess of R&B.

Aaliyah Dana Haughton, better known by her shortened singular stage-name, became an R&B sensation in the 1990's after being signed to a major label at the tender age of 12. She managed to win several awards and sell over 52 million albums, many of those being based on posthumous re-releases. Her influence and dominance in modern R&B garnered her the monikers of "Princess of R&B" and she is ranked as the 27th most successful R&B artist according to Billboard. She also led a tumultuous life that came to an end in a plane crash in August, 2001. She was 22 years old.

Aaliyah is known to the film world as starring as the love interest in Jet Li's English-language breakout-vehicle urban-kung-fu movie Romero Must Die, where she received equal billing with the martial artist. She also filmed her scenes from early DVD bargain bin essential Queen of the Damned shortly before her death. Aaliyah will be portrayed by Alexandra Shipp, who most notably played the lead in Nickelodeon's teen soap opera House of Anubis. The first choice for Aaliyah, Zendaya Coleman supposedly left the TV movie over moral objections with the Haughton families lack of consent with the biopic, which bodes well(!). The series is slated for a November 5 premiere, so remember, remember.

The teaser can be viewed and commented upon, here.