Movie inspired by the late musician Prince’s music in the works at Universal

December 4th, 2018 | by vBollywood Author

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Movie inspired by the late musician Prince’s music in the works at Universal

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Prince joins the list of musical acts that are getting the movie treatment.

Universal Pictures announced Monday that it has acquired the rights to a number of classic songs from the late musician’s catalog and is developing an original film musical inspired by his music. The narrative will be fictional and not a biopic of the artist’s life. With the help of singer Prince’s songs the story will be made along the lines of the Abba-inspired Mamma Mia. Mike Knobloch, the studio’s president of global film music and publishing, will play an important role in the project.

Prince became a pop-music icon over the course of his 40-plus-year career and sold more than 100 million records worldwide, so the moviemakers should have enough material to work on. Born Prince Rogers Nelson, he was one of the best-selling music artists of all time and won eight Grammy Awards, six American Music Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and an Academy Award (the latter for the 1984 film Purple Rain). He died of an accidental opioid overdose in 2016, at 57.

With the recent success of Bohemian Rhapsody, the slated release of the Elton John biopic Rocketman next year, and Universal’s upcoming Cats adaptation, musical/musician-inspired movies are seen as potential, and the Prince project might be the beginning.

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