A highly anticipated nine-hour documentary about Prince, directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ezra Edelman, has been abruptly cancelled after a dispute between the singer's estate and Netflix. The project, which had been in development for five years, aimed to explore both the abuse Prince allegedly experienced and inflicted. The estate, citing concerns about the film's accuracy and portrayal of Prince, reached a deal with Netflix that allows them to develop their own documentary featuring exclusive content from Prince's vault.
Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ezra Edelman, the project was in the works for five years before its recent cancellation.
In a statement on Instagram, the streaming platform, along with the late singer's estate, revealed they had struck a deal that resulted in the cancellation of the nine-hour-long film.“The Prince Estate and Netflix have come to a mutual agreement that will allow the estate to develop and produce a new documentary featuring exclusive content from Prince’s archive,” Around the same time, Prince's estate posted a video captioned,"The Vault Has Been Freed.
As a part of the deal, Netflix was granted full access to Prince's"vault," the characteristically-private icon's personal archive of unreleased songs, concert recordings, photographs and more located in the basement of his former home in Chanhassen, Minnesota. Several years later the estate changed hands, and upon reviewing a cut of the film, the new executors entered a contentious legal battle with Netflix to cut the project, expressing their displeasure with the film's content and belief that it inaccurately represented the singer's personality.
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