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Prince Netflix Documentary Won’t Be Shown, But Streamer Will Replace It With Authorized Version

By Roger Friedman

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The Ezra Edelman-made six part, nine hour documentary series about Prince is dead.

Netflix and Prince’s Estate just announced the project is over. It will be replaced by an authorized film with material from the Prince archives.

I CAN TELL YOU EXCLUSIVELY that on Sunday I discussed the documentary with an insider who told me this very thing. They said that the Edelman film concentrated on Prince’s sex and drugs but not on his rock and roll.

“It made no sense,” said my source, “it was petty and no one would have watched it. It did nothing for Prince’s legacy.”

I was told that the documentary would never been seen.

Edelman won many awards for his doc series about OJ Simpson. It’s unclear if he will be involved in the new project, although I doubt it. The big question is, will anyone ever see the series he made?

The good news: there are hundreds if not thousands of unreleased songs being prepared for release.

The official announcement that the doc would be replaced also came with a video saying the Prince archive is now #Free. What form this freedom will take is anyone’s guess.

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Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

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