Following Netflix’s decision to cancel the Prince documentary, the film’s director Ezra Edelman has called the streaming giant’s actions concerning his nine-hour program about the late singer, a “joke”.
During his appearance on the Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast, the director did not hold back his opinions when addressing the end of his project.
Claiming that Prince’s estate had been granted permission to point out any factual errors they found in his project, the superstar’s representative(s) instead delivered “a 17-page document full of editorial issues, not factual issues.”
Ezra, who won an Academy award for his 2016 OJ Simpson documentary, O.J. Made In America, added, “You think I have any interest in putting out a film that’s factually inaccurate?” Adding that he believed the keepers of Prince’s estate did not want too much of the singer’s “humanity” to be on show, the director added:
“Everything about who you believe he is is in this movie.” “You get to bathe in his genius. And yet you also have to confront his humanity, which he, by the way, in some ways, was trapped in not being able to expose, because he got trapped in his own myth about who he was to the world, and he had to maintain it.”
It was in February that Netflix cancelled the documentary, announcing it would instead produce a new show featuring, “exclusive content from Prince’s archive.”
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Author: Al Denté
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