The estate of Jimi Hendrix has released a new statement speaking out against a biopic purported to star Outkast's André 3000 as the iconic guitarist.
"Experience Hendrix, LLC, the family-owned company entrusted with
safeguarding the legacy of Jimi Hendrix and administrator of the Jimi
Hendrix music and publishing catalog, has made it known many times
in the past that no such film, were it to include original music or
copyrights created by Jimi Hendrix, can be undertaken without its full
participation," reads the statement.
The response follows new reports that the long-stalled biopic, tentatively titled All Is By My Side, is moving forward
once again after being blocked last summer. The biopic aims to explore
Hendrix's life between 1966 and 1967, when he released his landmark
debut, Are You Experienced? Pre-production is said to be
underway in Ireland, with principal photography expected to start in
three weeks in Wicklow and Dublin. John Ridley, who penned the scripts
for Three Kings, U-Turn and most recently, Red Tails, is both writing and directing the film.
While Janie Hendrix (Jimi's sister, and the CEO of Experience
Hendrix) and the Experience Hendrix board have not ruled out the
possibility of a Hendrix biopic altogether, the estate has refused to
license music out to several other planned Hendrix biopics in the past,
including one by Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Ultimatum, United 93).
In its latest statement, the estate reiterates that Experience
Hendrix would have to be involved from the get-go with any film that
plans to use Hendrix's original music.
"Until you are on set doing it you can't say what's going on," André 3000 told MTV back in 2008. Everybody wants to do the movie, but there are so many things that go into a biopic."
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Posted 05/2012
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