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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
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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