Seriously...how come Marvin Gaye doesn't have his own biographical movie?

[Kinguno]

The truth the same family that killed him keep killing him

 

[ba'al]

Nah, B

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Straight from the most connected man himself: Quincy Jones

Both of them nikkas was fukking Marlon Brando...

 

[Booker T Garvey]

Nah, B

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Straight from the most connected man himself: Quincy Jones

Both of them nikkas was fukking Marlon Brando...

Nah...that's quincy jones talking about what he heard, Pryor himself admitted to being bisexual in his book and on stage

Marvin gaye was notorious for being a sex addict during the "sexual healing" era, he was having drug fueled orgies; im sure Brando and other hollywood types were with him too

 

[NormanConnors]

Again though, one episode he's in the studio, the next he's trying out for the Lions and some NBA teams

it would just be weird from a linear storytelling standpoint; even if they got creative and started the movie with him almost making an NFL team, it would just be weird.

With Something like Netflix it could be a 2-3 season setup . I get what you're saying though with it being chopped up. They could do it in multiple 2 hr blocks or something though, 3-4 eps a season. I just want to see the shyt

 

[feelosofer]

Really it would have to be a miniseries, but it will never happen since Marvin's estate won't see a dime from it.

 

[Pazzy]

Jesse L. Martin starred in one that was not completed.



"In mid-2013, it was announced that filming on "Sexual Healing" had been suspended. Julien Temple was directing, with S. Epatha Merkerson (as Marvin’s Gaye’s mother, Alberta Cooper Gay), and Dwight Henry (as Marvin Gaye’s father, Marvin Gay, Sr.) joining Jesse L. Martin in front of the camera. David Harewood, Clarke Peters and Brendan Gleeson were also part of the cast.

It was reported that there was a possibility that the film might not see completion (at least, not immediately after that revelation), because Focus Features International, the company that picked up the project initially, and shopped it at the Cannes Film Festival that year, had pulled out.

Reasons for Focus' exited weren't given unfortunately (unless we just missed that announcement), although, at the time, I thought that it might have something to do with what follows.

Crew members were said to have not yet been paid fully for their work on the film, with one of the film's producers, Jimmy De Brabant, telling ScreenDaily that there was apparently a cash flow problem with the American investor backing the film; although he added that the funding that was promised by this investor had not yet arrived, but emphasized patience with the film's cast and crew, suggesting that the money was indeed coming.

At the time, it was said that about 70% of the film had been shot."

What Happened to Jesse L. Martin's Marvin Gaye Film? Might F. Gary Gray Be Working on One?

That was actually the official film that got stalled. They've been working on it since the 2000s.