Marleys VS Weinsteins
Two Bob Marley projects are in the works but only one will be able to use the icon’s music. The family of the reggae legend has a long-standing policy of not licensing his music to any film or TV project where an actor portrays the musician. And that included the Weinstein Co.’s planned adaptation of Rita Marley’s (Bob’s wife) ‘No Woman, No Cry’. It’s kind of ironic considering she’s an executive producer. Martin Scorsese is set to direct an as yet unnamed documentary on the legend which the Marley family supports. Bob’s son Ziggy goes to say that “We believe that this project is the best way to represent our father’s life from his perspective and any other film project pertaining to our father will be empty without his music to support it.”
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