Controversial 9-hour Prince documentary nixed at Netflix

Netflix has parted ways with the Prince property implicit a controversial nine-hour documentary astir the precocious euphony superstar.

Directed by Ezra Edelman, who won an Academy Award and two Emmys for the eight-hour 2016 ESPN movie “OJ: Made successful America,” the completed but untitled task volition not beryllium launched connected the streaming level arsenic antecedently planned.

“The Prince Estate and Netflix person travel to a communal statement that volition let the property to make and nutrient a caller documentary featuring exclusive contented from Prince’s archive. As a result, the Netflix documentary volition not beryllium released,” some entities announced successful a associated statement.

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Prince performs onstage successful 1986. (Getty)

Following Prince’s decease astatine 57 successful 2016, Edelman struck a reported multimillion dollar woody with Netflix and Comerica Bank, the interim executor of Prince’s estate. As portion of the agreement, the filmmaker was fixed unprecedented entree to the notoriously backstage musician’s archives with the committedness that he’d clasp originative control.

But things seemingly went southbound erstwhile a nine-hour chopped of the documentary made the aboriginal rounds, featuring immoderate of the “Purple Rain” crooner’s ex-lovers accusing him of carnal and affectional abuse.

New York Times Magazine reported that Prince’s erstwhile woman Jill Jones alleged successful the movie that helium physically assaulted her. The study besides claimed that Edelman’s “cursed masterpiece” highlighted elements of Prince’s abusive childhood, his abandonment of woman Mayte Garcia after the death of their 6-day-old son, arsenic good arsenic the singer’s dependence connected symptom medication.

Publicly known for cleanable living, Prince died of an accidental fentanyl overdose amid a unreality of mystery.

Last July, pursuing 4 years of accumulation connected the documentary, sources told Variety the task was “dead successful the water” aft representatives for the artist’s property claimed the archetypal chopped was filled with “dramatic” inaccuracies and “sensationalized” versions of events.

“Those with the work of carrying retired Prince’s wishes shall grant his creativity and genius,” the property said successful a connection the pursuing September. “We are moving to resoluteness matters concerning the documentary truthful that his communicative whitethorn beryllium told successful a mode that is factually close and does not mischaracterize oregon sensationalize his life. We look guardant to continuing to stock Prince’s gifts and observe his profound and lasting interaction connected the world.”

The quality of the Netflix cancellation was celebrated by the Prince estate connected Thursday with a video touting that the “vault has been freed,” on with the Prince quote: “Despite everything, nary 1 tin dictate who you are to different people.”