Windsor Star

Gaye biopic lands studio

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Warner Bros. has acquired Marvin Gaye biopic What's Going On.

Allen Hughes will direct the film — expected to have a budget of more than US$80 million — about the legendary soul singer and he will produce the movie alongside Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine and Andrew Lazar. Hughes told Deadline: “This is so personal for me. When I made my first film with my brother, we were fortunate to get What's Going On into the trailer for Menace II Society, and it was a game changer in elevating the marketing of that film.

“Every film of mine but the period film From Hell had some Marvin Gaye in it, and I've just always connected to him. He's the artist's artist, with this ethereal voice that just comes out of the heavens.

“There have been plenty of great artists, and then Marvin, in his own lane. When you listen, in one measure you feel like you've read a novel. Such a rich inner life in that voice, heavenly but riddled with pain, the agony and ecstasy at the same time.

“When he gained his independen­ce in the '70s, with that album What's Going On, then Trouble Man and Let's Get It On, I Want You and his final masterpiec­e Here, My Dear, when it comes to vocal orchestrat­ions and the way he layered his voice, he's Mozart.”

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