Warner Bros Lands Allen Hugh-Directed Marv Gaye Film; Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iove To Produce
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- WARNER BROS LANDS ALLEN HUGH-DIRECTED MARV GAYE FILM ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’; DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE TO PRODUCE
- GAYE
WARNER BROS LANDS ALLEN HUGH-DIRECTED MARV GAYE FILM ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’; DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE TO PRODUCE
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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.
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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.