Warner Bros. Acquir Marv Gaye Bpic 'What's Gog On' - Variety

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• WARNER BROS LANDS ALLEN HUGH-DIRECTED MARV GAYE FILM ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’; DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE TO PRODUCE
• DR. DRE-PRODUCED MARV GAYE BPIC HEAD TO SCREENS 2023
• A MARV GAYE MIL BPIC WH THE FULL BACKG OF MOTOWN IS THE WORKS
• WARNER BROS. ACQUIR MARV GAYE BPIC ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ WH DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE PRODUCG
• IN SPIKE LEE’S FUR NEW FILM, MARV GAYE’S ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ IS STILL FIGHTG THE POWER
• DR. DRE OFFICIALLY ANNOUNC HIS ‘NEXT BIG THG’ IS THE MARV GAYE MOVIE | WATCH
• MARV GAYE BPIC EYEG 2023 RELEASE DATE AT WARNER BROS.
• MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE(1939-1984)
• LENNY KRAVZ FALLY EXPLAS WHY HE DROPPED OUT OF THE MARV GAYE BPIC
• MARV: THE LIFE STORY OF MARV GAYE
• MARV GAY
• DR. DRE OFFICIALLY ANNOUNC HIS ‘NEXT BIG THG’ IS THE MARV GAYE MOVIE | WATCH
• WARNER BROS LANDS ALLEN HUGH-DIRECTED MARV GAYE FILM ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’; DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE TO PRODUCE
• WARNER BROS. ACQUIR MARV GAYE BPIC ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ WH DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE PRODUCG
• DR. DRE IS MAKG A MOVIE ABOUT MARV GAYE (EXCLUSIVE)
• 50 YEARS AFTER MARV GAYE ASKED, ‘WHAT’S GOG ON?’ AMERI STILL SEARCHG FOR AN ANSWER

WARNER BROS LANDS ALLEN HUGH-DIRECTED MARV GAYE FILM ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’; DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE TO PRODUCE

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has land What’s Gog On, a bpic of inic soul sger Marv Gaye that Allen Hugh will direct, and produce wh Dr. The stud acquired a script by poet-playwright Marc Gardley (he wrote the mil The Color Purple for WB) and the sger’s tate and Motown are part of the al so there will be rights to e all of Gaye’s signature songs. Every film of me but the perd film From Hell had some Marv Gaye , and I’ve jt always nnected to him.

The Marv Gaye tate and Motown are squarely aboard, wh the sger’s widow, Jan Gaye, beg an executive producer along wh Suzanne Passe.

Hugh and the producers immediately will beg the search for the actor to play Gaye. Not only do pict the tumultuo relatnship he had wh his father, celebrat the life of the women who fluenced Gaye’s reer and spired some of the most inic love songs of all time. Gaye’s early reer helped shape the Motown sounds of the ’60.

DR. DRE-PRODUCED MARV GAYE BPIC HEAD TO SCREENS 2023

Gaye’s mise was tragic: A day before his 45th birthday 1984, he was shot ad by his father. Gaye was ducted posthumoly to the Songwrers Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Hugh said he expects to e Gaye’s voice the pictn of his songs the film.

Marv Gaye is gettg the bpic treatment, Deadle reported Thursday.

A MARV GAYE MIL BPIC WH THE FULL BACKG OF MOTOWN IS THE WORKS

Dre and Interspe Rerds -founr Jimmy Iove are among the Gaye's widow, Jan Gaye, and Motown Rerds are on board wh the project, the film will have the rights to e Gaye's mic, a key ponent that earlier attempts to brg Gaye's life to screen lacked. Hugh has put Gaye's mic projects gog back to "Menace, " which ed "What's Gog On" the trailer. " The lead role has not yet been st, but Hugh says he's hopg to fd an actor whose voice n blend wh Gaye's, whose real vols will be ed throughout the film.

Marv Gaye.

Warner Bros has announced has bought the rights to an upg Marv Gaye bpic tled What’s Gog On, to be directed by Allen Hugh. “Every film of me but the perd film From Hell had some Marv Gaye , and I’ve jt always nnected to him.

WARNER BROS. ACQUIR MARV GAYE BPIC ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ WH DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE PRODUCG

There have been plenty of great artists, and then Marv, his own more: The tragic story of Marv Gaye and the untimely ath of a soul legend“When you listen, one measure you feel like you’ve read a novel. ”Read more: Marv Gaye's 10 greatt songs ever, rankedOver the years, there have been var attempts by different filmmakers to direct a Marv Gaye film, but they have all fallen through until will work wh Gaye’s tate and Motown on the project, so will have the rights to e all of the inic sger’s signature songs.

Marv Gaye sgg 'I Heard Through the Grapeve' wh vols stripped is credible. 'What's Gog On' by Marv GayeWrten by poet Marc Gardley, the film is scribed as a "mil odyssey" focg on “the life of one of Ameri’s greatt sgers and micians” film will feature the story of his past wh events that helped shape his legendary fal tour. It will also feature the tumultuo relatnship Gaye had wh his father - who eventually shot and killed his famo son - and will celebrate the life of the women who fluenced Gaye’s reer, and spired some of the greatt love songs of all time.

IN SPIKE LEE’S FUR NEW FILM, MARV GAYE’S ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ IS STILL FIGHTG THE POWER

Has acquired Marv Gaye bpic “What’s Gog On, ” Variety has nfirmed. After a number of tri to adapt Gaye’s story for the big screen, Warner Bros. Has stck a al that clus a script by poet-playwright Marc Gardley and the rights to e all of Gaye’s signature songs, as his tate and Motown were part of the agreement.

Gaye’s life has long warranted s place among great mic bpics. Mart and Lenny Kravz have all failed to get the thorizatn om Gaye’s fay to tell his story.

Instead of a tradnal, lear bpic, “What’s Gog On” will thread Gaye’s past wh the events that shaped his fal tour to rult a “mil odyssey” and “theatril experience, ” acrdg to Deadle Hollywood, which first broke the news about Warners acquirg the bpic.

DR. DRE OFFICIALLY ANNOUNC HIS ‘NEXT BIG THG’ IS THE MARV GAYE MOVIE | WATCH

In “What’s Happeng Brother, ” a shimmerg cut om his classic 1971 album “What’s Gog On, ” Marv Gaye sgs om the perspective of an Amerin soldier who’s jt returned home om Vietnam.

“Can’t fd no work, n’t fd no job, ” he laments before layg out his bewilrment unsparg terms ma only more plative by how tenrly Gaye livers them: “I jt don’t unrstand what’s gog on across this land. By this pot the story, we’ve already gotten to know the men, but hearg them sg Gaye’s words, we e to unrstand how eply they were bond by the shared experience Lee’s film seeks to illumate. ”Yet nearly 50 years after Gaye ptured the tumult of that early-’70s moment, “What’s Gog On” speaks no ls vividly of our own era.

Racism, poverty, police vlence, unemployment, the stctn of the environment — ’s all there Gaye’s masterpiece, a landmark of Amerin prott mic all the more powerful bee me om an artist not prevly regnized as a polil figure. More recently, artists like Solange, Frank Ocean and Blood Orange have taken spiratn om Gaye’s tailed groov and empathetic anyone faiar wh the history of Motown, where Gaye rerd for the majory of his reer, has likely heard the stori of how the soul legend (who died 1984 after he was shot by his father) battled wh Motown founr Berry Gordy Jr.

MARV GAYE BPIC EYEG 2023 RELEASE DATE AT WARNER BROS.

Over his termatn to break om the label’s factory-like approach to songwrg and productn to create somethg more expansive and style Gaye veloped for “What’s Gog On” — which he produced himself, much of Detro over a sgle 10-day stretch — was lh but mournful, peppered wh Lat percsn and lightly gild wh strgs played by members of the Detro Symphony Orchtra.

Volly, Gaye “fally learned how to sg” on “What’s Gog On, ” he told bgrapher David Rz. ”In fact, the mic is so pretty that ’s possible to lose foc on Gaye’s stark lyrics about the “trigger-happy policg” he tails “Inner Cy Blu (Make Me Wanna Holler). ” (Of tertwg Blanchard’s mic and Gaye’s songs the new movie, Lee said: “They go together the same way Aaron Copland went together wh Public Enemy ‘He Got Game.

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(Kirk McKoy / Los Angel Tim) Which isn’t to say that Gaye ma the album wh such a clear-head sense of purpose. “There’s not one Black person Ameri who didn’t get what Marv was talkg about, ” said Mary Wilson, the former Suprem sger who was a close iend and Motown lleague of Gaye’s.

” Lee, meanwhile, dodged a qutn about whom he se as Gaye’s herors.

“I’m not gonna answer that, bee I don’t wanna get trouble leavg somebody out, ” he the director’s proment e of “What’s Gog On” “Da 5 Bloods, ” which explicly nnects historil trma to the current moment wh a subplot volvg Print Tmp, argu that Gaye’s statement still rounds — and that n still open mds.

MARV GAYE(1939-1984)

Marv Gaye – Dr Dre.

LENNY KRAVZ FALLY EXPLAS WHY HE DROPPED OUT OF THE MARV GAYE BPIC

Dre officially announc that he’s workg on the Marv Gaye movie and that ’s the next big thg people should expect om him ?.

Dre was filmed playg the stud wh some Marv Gaye master rerdgs. Both Motown and Marv Gaye’s tate are also onboard.

MARV: THE LIFE STORY OF MARV GAYE

Wh the help of Warner Brothers, Dre will be able to utilize all of Gaye’s signature songs. On top of his negotiatn skills, Dre ed his expertise as a sound producer to help the director rporate Gaye’s voice to the narrative on the movie.

Also, back 2021, Deadle reported that the film, tled “What’s Gog On” was beg veloped partnership wh Motown and Gaye’s tate, so filmmakers will have the rights to all of the sger’s signature songs. Copyright and legal issu stalled or nceled several past movie attempts to tell Gaye’s story. Every film of me, but the perd film From Hell, had some Marv Gaye and I’ve jt always nnected to him.

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Who’s exced to see a Marv Gaye bpic head up by Dr. Has acquired Marv Gaye bpic "What's Gog On".

DR. DRE OFFICIALLY ANNOUNC HIS ‘NEXT BIG THG’ IS THE MARV GAYE MOVIE | WATCH

"Every film of me but the perd film From Hell had some Marv Gaye , and I've jt always nnected to him. Gaye's songs will feature the movie as his tate and officials at Motown Rerds are part of the project.

WARNER BROS LANDS ALLEN HUGH-DIRECTED MARV GAYE FILM ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’; DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE TO PRODUCE

Gaye's widow Jan Gaye is an executive producer on the motn picture, wh producers set to start searchg for an actor to play the mic in, who was shot ad by his father 1984, jt a day before his 45th birthday.

BgraphyAwardsTriviaMarv Gaye(1939-1984)Mic ArtistMic DepartmentComposerPlay trailer5:23Trailers om Hell (2007–)Marv Pentz Gay Jr. (known profsnally as Marv Gaye; April 2, 1939 - April 1, 1984) was an Amerin sger and songwrer. Gaye also rerd duets wh Mary Wells, Kim Wton, Tammi Terrell, and Diana Ross.

Durg the 1970s, Gaye rerd the albums What's Gog On and Let's Get It On and beme one of the first artists Motown to break away om the res of a productn later rerdgs fluenced several ntemporary R&B sub-genr, such as quiet storm and Neo-Soul.

WARNER BROS. ACQUIR MARV GAYE BPIC ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ WH DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE PRODUCG

Gaye's last televised appearanc were at the 1983 NBA All-Star Game, where he sang "The Star-Spangled Banner"; Motown 25: Yterday, Today, Forever; and Soul April 1, 1984, the eve of his 45th birthday, Gaye was shot and mortally wound by his father, Marv Gay Sr., at their hoe Hanck Park, Los Angel, after an argument. Gay Sr.

DR. DRE IS MAKG A MOVIE ABOUT MARV GAYE (EXCLUSIVE)

Many stutns have posthumoly btowed Gaye wh awards and other honors cludg the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and ductns to the Rhythm and Blu Mic Hall of Fame, the Songwrers Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Keep track of how much of Marv Gaye’s work you have seen. At this pot, you uld make a pellg film about all the aborted attempts to make a pellg film about Marv Gaye.

50 YEARS AFTER MARV GAYE ASKED, ‘WHAT’S GOG ON?’ AMERI STILL SEARCHG FOR AN ANSWER

Enter Lenny Kravz a year later, wh the sger g on board as Gaye for what would have been his first lead role a film. The movie foced on Gaye’s stt Europe the early 1980s when he was tryg to curb a dg addictn, get his health back, and rtart his reer.

Dpe Temple’s film reportedly securg the rights to Gaye’s mic — a feat that stymied many of his petors — never got off the ground and remas a “What if? “I went to Oostend, ” Kravz tells Rollg Stone, referrg to the small Belgian cy where Gaye lived and cleaned up. Gaye would ntue to live abroad and engeered a reer eback wh 1982’s Midnight Love, which featured his fal h “Sexual Healg.