Cinemadirector talks about Prince’s documentary that was canceled: ‘Keying’ Directed by Ezra Edelman project on the singer would also come with a television series of approximately six hours

A few months after documentary about Prince produced by Netflix be canceled, the director Ezra Edelman pronounced on the project, in which he worked for four years in development after replacing AVA DUVERNAY.

It is worth remembering how, in July 2024, it was reported that the production was “dead in the water” due to disputes with the prince estate, which claimed that an initial cut of the documentary had “dramatic” factual inaccuracies and “sensational” representations (via via ” Variety).

Beyond the feature film documentary, Prince It would also win a series of about six hours. Edelman He supposedly delivered nine hours of the show, and that would violate the agreement. Now, the filmmaker has called the cancellation and withdrawal of Netflix of “joke”.

“It’s a joke… I can’t overcome it – the myopia of a group of people whose interest is their own profit. They are afraid of his humanity,” he said in podcast participation Pablo Tower Finds Out.

Do you think I have any interest in releasing a movie that is factually inaccurate?

“Everything about who you believe he is, is in this movie. You dive into his genius. And yet you need to confront humanity in it,” he continued Ezra Edelman. “People had problems with how he treated people – he was emotionally abusive, he was physically abusive.”

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