Ava DuVernay To Direct Prince Documentary For NetflixPosted by Wilson Morales
October 30, 2018
Source: Deadline
Deadline is reporting that Ava DuVernay will direct a documentary about Prince for Netflix.
“Prince was a genius and a joy and a jolt to the senses,” the Oscar nominated filmmaker told the site. “He was like no other. He shattered every preconceived notion, smashed every boundary, shared everything in his heart through his music. The only way I know how to make this film is with love. And with great care. I’m honored to do so and grateful for the opportunity entrusted to me by the estate.”
As part of the development of the film, Prince’s estate has granted the DuVernay full access to the vast treasure trove of archives recordings and perhaps most immediately important to Prince’s global fanbase, the unreleased material by the prolific musician.
The early stages of the project have seen DuVernay, editor Spencer Averick and other members of her core production visit Prince’s Paisley Park home and studios repeatedly over the past several months.
DuVernay, whose A Wrinkle In Time was released this year and grossed over $100M at the box office domestically, has been in production in New York for months on Central Park Five. Written and directed by DuVernay, the four-part drama about five Harlem teens were incorrectly convicted first in the media and then twice in the courts for the 1989 brutal rape of a jogger in the NYC park is set to launch on Netflix next year.
The director also has a big budget screen adaptation of Jack Kirby’s The New Gods with Warner Bros and DC also coming up.
DuVernay is repped by CAA and attorney Nina Shaw. Prince is repped by lightening in a bottle, as he always was.
