Ezra Edelman, director the cancelled Netflix Prince documentary, has broken his silence on the decision to pull the plug on the film.
Last month, Netflix made the decision to cancel the project, following disputes over content, length, and control, with Prince's estate claiming that it was a misrepresentation of the late singer. Instead, they announced that it would produce a new show, featuring, "exclusive content from Prince's archive".
Now, Edelman, who won an Oscar for his OJ Simpson documentary in 2016, has called Netflix's axing of his nine hour documentary on Prince, "a joke".
Speaking on the Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast, Edelman claimed that Prince's Estate had granted permission to note any factual errors, they found with this project. He claimed that they instead elected to deliver a "a 17-page document full of editorial issues, not factual issues".
The director also added: "You think I have any interest in putting out a film that's factually inaccurate?". He also claimed that the keepers of the estate did not want a lot of Prince's "humanity" on the documentary.
"Everything about who you believe he is is in this movie", stated Ezra. "You get to bathe in his genius. And yet you also have to confront his humanity, which he, by the way, in some ways, was trapped in not being able to expose, because he got trapped in his own myth about who he was to the world, and he had to maintain it".
Last month, Prince and the Clash received Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Grammy Awards. More on this from Nova here.
