A brand new movie musical impressed by Prince’s music is within the works, Variety reviews. Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to a lot of songs from Prince’s catalog, intending to make use of them to drive a fictional narrative. Executives are reportedly trying to develop a movie alongside the strains of Mamma Mia, which weaves ABBA’s music into the plot. The movie won’t be a biopic. Troy Carter, the leisure advisor of Prince’s property, is about to govt produce alongside Jody Gerson, Chairman and CEO of Universal Music Publishing Group.
The movie musical joins a number of different ongoing Prince tasks. Ava Duvernay is directing a brand new Prince documentary for Netflix, which is separate from the Prince documentary coming to UK’s Channel 4.
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