Netflix's planned release of Ezra Edelman's nine-hour documentary on Prince has been halted following an agreement with the late singer's estate. The estate now has the right to develop its own documentary using exclusive content from Prince's archive.
Netflix definitely wanted to debut Ezra Edelman’s nine-hour-long documentary chronicling Prince’s life, but that won’t be happening thanks to the late singer’s estate. Though Edelman’s untitled documentary was already completed, Netflix announced on Thursday that it has “come to a mutual agreement” with Prince’s estate to keep the film from being released.
But as The Guardian notes, things began to change in 2022 as the Netflix executive who brokered the deal exited the streamer, and Prince’s estate came under new ownership that did not like early cuts of the film. Sources within Prince’s estate told Variety last July that parts of Edelman’s documentary were overly “sensationalized” and insufficiently fact-checked. It seems more likely that the estate didn’t like what the filmmaker found.
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