The Netflix documentary series about the prince by Oscar filmmaker was canceled after the property of the late singer blocked his release.
Completed, but without a title, Ezra Edelman was postponed in 2024 after representatives of the Prince’s estate looked at the cut and claimed that he had factual mistakes and that he had sensationalized parts of the singer’s life, Variety said.
Netflix and The Estate said on Friday that the project had been abolished, under an agreement that would last “develop and produce a new documentary with exclusive content from the prince’s archive,” the joint statement said.
The property was also published short video on x Showing Prince’s photos as his music played. The video included the inscription: “The vault was released,” an obvious reference on Prince’s personal recording archive.
EDELMAN has previously made 2016. Oj: made in AmericaAn eight -inch deep dive that won the Academy Award and widespread for its unwavering, complex view of life and criminal trial of OJ Simpson.
Edelman allegedly spent almost five years on the Prince project, which included interviews with many former associates, assistants, friends, managers, managers, family members and partners – including several girls who accused the rock star for physical and emotional abuse, he said to the September report To the New York Times.
One girl who also worked with Prince as a member of her band in the 1980s, Jill Jones, claimed that he had once repeatedly hit her in the face after she hit him.
The documentary also dived in Prince’s violent childhood and complicated layers of his personal life, as well as intricate music and persona music icons. The final editing is supposedly nine hours long.
The prince died in 2016 from a random overdose of Fentanil, leaving his property to divide between six siblings – touching a long legal battle that may have contributed to the ambivanity of the property around the documentary. He was allegedly approved when the property was still operated by the bank.
“False and unfounded rumors, hatred and revenge more than showing shine and music will not be the focus of the” final “doctor on the prince!” L. Londell McMillan, a lawyer who helps managing one of the companies in charge of the property, said on Friday at X.
It was a repost of remarks that originally outlined last fall, as fans first began to discuss the alleged content of the documentary in The Times.
After the news that it was canceled, and will be replaced by a documentary made of a prince’s property, the fan reaction is divided – some saying that they are not interested in what they assume they will be censored, with a sugar view of his life. Others praised the property for protecting the prince’s picture.
Representatives of the Creative Artists Agency, which represents Edelman, did not respond to the request of CBC News for comment. Edelman did not comment on the cancellation or controversy of the project.
But in December, on the podcast Pablo Torre finds outEdelman speaks in general o The state of the documentary industry, criticizing the increase in documentary films made under the supervision of their subjects.
“The type of documentary films that are more popular and widespread are more and more things that are shown by currents who sometimes relate to celebrities, artists, singers, whoever … borders with marked content because they are in the relationship between the subjects themselves, who are often producers “he said.
“The idea of a documentary as journalism is somehow pushed.”
He said he believed that “less emphasis on art”, in the main documentary films.
“If the subject has any creative control, I have a problem.”
