After years of gtatn and obstacl for a slew of petg projects, a Marv Gaye feature bpic will be ma after all. I’ve learned that Jse L. Mart will play the Motown legend the Julien Temple-helmed Sexual Healg, which is slated to start filmg later this month Europe. Brendan Gleason is set to -star. Law & Orr alum Jse L. Mart was prevly attached to star the Jam Gandolfi-produced versn of Sexual Healg five years ago. Temple’s Sexual Healg ma headl November when tapped Lenny Kravz for the lead, triggerg objectns om Gaye’s son, Marv Gaye [...]
Contents:
- WHAT HAPPENED TO JSE L. MART’S MARV GAYE FILM?
- JSE L. MART TO PLAY MARV GAYE IN ‘SEXUAL HEALG’, REPLAC LENNY KRAVZ
- 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?
* jesse l martin marvin gaye *
Mart character as Marv Gaye. Mart’s Marv Gaye film, I found a uple of recent ems that we missed.
JSE L. MART TO PLAY MARV GAYE IN ‘SEXUAL HEALG’, REPLAC LENNY KRAVZ
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.
WARNER BROS LANDS ALLEN HUGH-DIRECTED MARV GAYE FILM ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’; DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE TO PRODUCE
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.
WARNER BROS. ACQUIR MARV GAYE BPIC ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ WH DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE PRODUCG
Berry Gordy and Janis Gaye, Marv’s ex-wife, also opposed . 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.