There’s a Purple Rain Check on Netflix’s Prince Documentary

On February 6th, a joint statement was issued by Netflix and The Prince Estate, announcing that they are collaborating to create an exclusive new documentary about the late artist known as Prince. This decision means that the previously planned documentary series will not be released. Excitingly, the official Prince account shared on X that “The Vault Has Been Opened,” indicating that this new project will feature content from Prince’s private archives.

For over five years, Edelman labored on the documentary, as stated by the New York Times in a feature about the project. The rights to the final version of the documentary belonged to both Edelman and Netflix, but they allowed the estate to check it for “factual accuracy.” It appears that Netflix relied on the estate and their archive to complete the documentary, since, according to the same report, there was very little unscripted or personal footage in the archive that the filmmakers could access. Last year, Variety reported claims from an insider that the documentary contained “dramatic” factual inaccuracies.

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2025-02-07 06:53