A Netflix documentary series about Prince by an Oscar-coated filmmaker was canceled after the deceased singer has blocked its publication.
The completed, but without title, series by Ezra Edelman, was delayed in 2024 after the representatives of Prince’s Estate looked at a cut and claimed that it had factual errors and that according to Variety it was sensationalized parts of the life of the singer.
Netflix and the property said on Friday that the project was scrapped from an agreement in accordance with an agreement that “developed and produced a new documentary with exclusive content from Prince’s Archive,” said a joint explanation.
The property also published a short video on X, which shows photos of Prince how his music was played. The video contained the caption: “The safe was freed”, an obvious reference to the personal archive of Prince.
Edelman made in 2016 OJ: Made in AmericaAn eight -hour dive that gained an Oscar and widespread recognition for his unshakable, complex view of the life and criminal proceedings by OJ Simpson.
According to reports, Edelman reported almost five years for the Prince project, which interviews with many former employees, assistants, friends, managers, family members and partners of the star included September report in the New York Times.
A friend who also worked with Prince as a member of his band in the 1980s, Jill Jones, claimed that he once repeatedly hit her in the face after struck him.
The documentary also dealt with the improper childhood of princes and complicated layers of his personal life as well as the complicated music and person of the musician. The final processing is said to be nine hours.
Prince died of a random fentanyl overdose in 2016, so that his estate was divided between six siblings. It was allegedly approved when the estate was managed by a bank.
“False and unfounded rumors, hatred and revenge more than showing brilliance and music will not be the focus of a ‘definitive’ doc on prince!” L. Londell McMillan, a lawyer who helps the administration of one of the companies responsible for the estate, said on Friday to X.
It was a repost of comments that he originally made last autumn when the fans discussed the alleged content of the documentary after the article in the Times for the first time.
According to the news that it was canceled and replaced by a documentary that was made with Prince’s estate, the fan reaction was shared – some say that they are not interested in what they assume that they are a censored, sugar -containing Will be a look at his life. Others praised the estate for the protection of the prince’s image.
Representatives of the Creative Artists agency, which represented Edelman, did not respond to the request from CBC News for comment. Edelman did not comment on the cancellation or controversy of the project.
But in December in the podcast Pablo Torre finds outEdelman generally spoke about the state of the documentary film industry and criticized the increase in documentaries under the supervision of their topics.
“The type of documentaries that occur more popular and more often the subjects themselves, who are often producers,” he said.
“The idea of the documentary as journalism is pushed a little on the track.”
He said he believed that it is less focus on art in the mainstream documentary films.
“If the topic of creative control has, I have a problem.”
