Dr. Dre Is Makg a Movie About Marv Gaye (EXCLUSIVE) - Variety

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. 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. Gaye’s mise was tragic: A day before his 45th birthday 1984, he was shot ad by his father.

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

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. Dre is workg on a movie about the late sger Marv Gaye, Variety has learned.

MARV GAYE

And rights to e Gaye’s mic have been secured, acrdg to sourc. Sony/ATV Mic Publishg is home to Gaye’s songwrg creds. There have been multiple attempts to give Gaye the bpic treatment.

MARV: THE LIFE STORY OF MARV GAYE

Mart and Lenny Kravz all have tried to brg Gaye’s story to the screen, but until now, none had been thorized by Gaye’s fay. The most recent project to get the sign off om the Gaye tate was wh Jamie Foxx who land the rights for a limed seri 2016 but that project has seen no movement the years sce. In a cur twist of fate, Dre is reprented by Kg, Holm, Paterno & Soriano, the same legal firm which fend Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams agast the Gaye tate the closely-monored “Blurred L” trial 2015.

The verdict found favor of the Gaye fay, which ntend that “Blurred L” ged on Gaye’s 1977 h “Got to Give It Up” and orred Thicke and Williams to pay lns statutory damag. At this pot, you uld make a pellg film about all the aborted attempts to make a pellg film about Marv Gaye. 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.

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

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.

In his recently released memoir Let Love Rule, Kravz wr about learng of Gaye’s murr.