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
• WARNER BROS. ACQUIR MARV GAYE BPIC ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ WH DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE PRODUCG
• WHAT HAPPENED TO JSE L. MART’S MARV GAYE FILM?
• DR. DRE-PRODUCED MARV GAYE BPIC HEAD TO SCREENS 2023
• LENNY KRAVZ FALLY EXPLAS WHY HE DROPPED OUT OF THE MARV GAYE BPIC
• IN SPIKE LEE’S FUR NEW FILM, MARV GAYE’S ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ IS STILL FIGHTG THE POWER
• THE STORY BEHD THE MURR OF MARV GAYE

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. Gaye was ducted posthumoly to the Songwrers Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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

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

WHAT HAPPENED TO JSE L. MART’S MARV GAYE FILM?

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. Mart character as Marv Gaye. Mart’s Marv Gaye film, I found a uple of recent ems that we missed.

Gary Gray teased, while talkg to TMZ, that, while he’s not exactly lookg forward to makg another bpic (after this year’s Straight Outta Compton this year), one that would make him change his md is if he were asked to make a film on the life of Marv Gaye. “All the thgs he talked about his albums and what is gog on is relevant now, ” Gray said, llg Marv Gaye his favore artist. Gary Gray had ma a al wh producer Suzanne Passe and Motown founr Berry Gordy to brg Gaye’s life to the big screen, addg that Gaye’s fay is volved as well.

In addn, I also dug to the S&A archiv for any nnectn between Gray and Gaye the past, and found a 2009 post which was announced that F. Gary Gray was attached to direct a Marv Gaye bpic, wh C. No stud was attached at the time, wh producers of the project shoppg to studs and fanciers a package that clud plete mic rights to Marv Gaye’s talog, wh plans to have the star of the film lip synch to Gaye’s rerdgs.

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

Gray, who had long wanted to tell Gaye’s story (and apparently still very much do), faced mic rights problems. It was also around this time that a rival Marv Gaye film tled Sexual Healg, that was to be produced by the late Jam Gandolfi, and was to star Jse L. That project, which was to foc on the sger’s clg years (unlike Gray’s, which would ver Gaye’s entire life), didn’t have rights to Gaye’s full mic library.

To start, Marv Gaye’s children, Nona Gaye, Frankie Gaye, and Marv Gaye III, all opposed the makg of this film. Berry Gordy and Janis Gaye, Marv’s ex-wife, also opposed .

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

Epatha Merkerson (as Marv’s mother, Alberta Cooper Gay), and Dwight Henry (as Marv’s father, Marv Gay, Sr. The film is set the early 1980s, and foc on the makg of the Midnight Love album, while Gaye was livg Belgium – a dg addict, nsired somethg of a has-been at the time.

Mart would be playg Gaye, was met wh much excement, wh many appldg the news as perfect stg.

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

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

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.

After several failed attempts, the story of Marv Gaye is fally head to the big screen the bpic "What's Gog On. " One of the ma voic rponsible for creatg Motown's signature sound the '60s, Gaye also helped her an era which artists had more ntrol over their mic the '70s.

While Gaye ntued releasg unfettable tracks until his tragic ath 1984, mak sense the bpic would be named for the album that Rollg Stone recently placed at number one on their list of "500 Greatt Albums of All Time. Big nam like Cameron Crowe and Jamie Foxx board other projects about Gaye's life that also never materialized. So, what do we know about the Marv Gaye bpic that seems to fally be gettg off the ground?

THE STORY BEHD THE MURR OF MARV GAYE

" The plan is to feature tegral events om Gaye's past, leadg to what happened durg his fal tour.