According to Kevin Smith, his currently unreleased Prince documentary is to “finally see the light”.
It seems that the 52-year-old director has revealed the all-access-areas film he made before the late music icon’s premature passing in April 2016, at the age of 57, from an accidental fentanyl overdose, is going to be released eventually.
Smith spent countless hours speaking to the superstar (born Prince Rogers Nelson) at his Paisley Park Estate for the project. The collaboration came to pass after Prince had rejected the movie maker’s request to use ‘The Most Beautiful Girl in the World’ in Kevin’s 2001 buddy comedy ‘Jay and the Silent Bob Strike Back’.
According to the director, during ‘An Evening with Kevin Smith’, Kevin recalled: “We were trying to get a Prince song for ‘Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back’ … we were trying to get Prince’s ‘The Most Beautiful Girl in the World’ but we couldn’t get any response back from him.” However, Smith would later get a call from the artist, who said he was a huge fan of his 1999 flick ‘Dogma’, and asked if he would work with him on a concert film.
Prince said: “I have this thing where I’m gonna debut my new album for a bunch of fans … I want to make a movie that we can bring to the Cannes Film Festival.”
When asked what the chances are of the doc coming to screen, in a recent interview the comedian told The Guardian publication “Very high. The director of ‘OJ: Made in America’ is making a documentary for Netflix, and came to the house to interview me. When they went to the vaults after Prince died, they found so much unreleased music and so many music videos, but the only footage of him talking was what I shot. It’s extraordinary: he acts differently to how he ever acted in his entire life, and he talks for hours and hours. It looks like it’s finally going to see the light.”
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Author: Al Denté
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