Yep.. looks like Helen Willis boy is gonna play the GREAT Marvin Gaye in a biopic. Looks like a good move for the crooner
According to the the London Evening Standard is reporting today that they’ve learned Lenny Kravitz has been tapped to play Marvin Gaye in British filmmaker Julien Temple’s tentatively titled Midnight Love project (named after the album Marvin Gaye recorded in Brussels in the early 80s).
The film, which S&A has been following since it was first announced, will focus on the making of the Midnight Love album, while Gaye was living in Belgium – a drug addict, considered a has-been at the time.
If you recall, of all the Marvin Gaye films that have long been in development, Julien Temple’s, at one time, seemed the most likely to be completed first; it was early in 2011 that it had been given a greenlight, and financing for its $8 million budget; although, at that time, there was no word on who was being considered for the title role.
Principal photography was scheduled to begin in Belgium late last year, but that didn’t happen. As we’ve reported several times, Janis Gaye, the late singer’s second and last wife, apparently knew nothing about the project, stating last year that she was at her home in Rhode Island when she read about plans to make the film.
Janis Gaye was said to be
“very skeptical about attempts to bring Marvin Gaye’s story to screen,”
as she has had difficulties trusting other involved parties over the years, since his death.
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