Lenny Kravz Explas Why He Dropped Out of the Marv Gaye Bpic – Rollg Stone

Contents:

• WARNER BROS LANDS ALLEN HUGH-DIRECTED MARV GAYE FILM ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’; DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE TO PRODUCE
• DR. DRE IS MAKG A MOVIE ABOUT MARV GAYE (EXCLUSIVE)
• MARV GAYE
• MARV: THE LIFE STORY OF MARV GAYE
• LENNY KRAVZ FALLY EXPLAS WHY HE DROPPED OUT OF THE MARV GAYE BPIC

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.

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

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.

MARV GAYE

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.

MARV: THE LIFE STORY OF MARV GAYE

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.

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

Hugh said he expects to e Gaye’s voice the pictn of his songs the film. Dre is workg on a movie about the late sger Marv Gaye, Variety has learned.