The rebellious Prince of Motown – Marvin Gaye – is receiving a double film treatment for the near future.
Italian Job director F. Gary Gray is slated to direct – with producers David Foster and Duncan McGillivray attached. Blood Diamond‘s writer, C. Gaby Mitchell, is signed on to pen the script.
Unlike the film Sexual Healing, which will focus on Gaye’s decline post-Motown, Gray’s Marvin will cover the entire span of the musician’s life, from his rise to Prince of Soul, his defiance of the restrictive hit-making Motown system, his fall and comeback, and finally his tragic 1984 death at the hands of his father.
The production was hung up on acquiring the rights to Gaye’s catalog, but with that issue finally cleared up, producers are shopping the film around for some financing.
The actors will lip-sync Marvin’s songs, because really now, who could do it better?
Should be interesting to see how Marvin and Sexual Healing will stack up against each other!
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