Is this the beginning of a biopic dedicated to the prince of pop?
It was through a laconic message posted on her Facebook page that the American artist Sheila E unveiled, on January 22, the existence and the upcoming release of a film dedicated to Prince, the musician to the most 150 million albums sold died in 2016. A project still shrouded in mystery and which is already raising the opposition of some fans.
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If the precise outlines and scope of this project are still unclear, the film in question, entitled
Girl Meets Boy
, should focus, according to the main interested party, on "
the beautiful story
" of the relationship between the American singer and Sheila E, who was his thresher for several years.
The still nebulous character of the film did not prevent some of the fans of Prince to take their distance almost immediately, because of doubts concerning the veracity of several words and memories entrusted by the singer in recent years.
"
We simply cannot, in good conscience, promote what we consider to be probably semi-fictional or entirely fabricated accounts of Prince's story, designed only to overstate the importance of a particular member of the group.
" Housequake fan group said in a Jan. 26 statement.
A "
beautiful story
"
After a meeting on tour in 1977, her participation in 1984 in the song of Prince
Erotic City
during the recording sessions of the album
Purple Rain
convinced the young artist to embark on a solo career, which she began the same year. with the release of his first album,
The Glamorous Life
.
The two musicians have a relationship in the mid-1980s, about which Sheila E recently returned in an interview with the
Guardian
, mentioning for example that the star had one day offered to marry him, in full concert.
Separated at the end of the
Lovesexy World Tour
of 1988-1989, the former couple nevertheless kept a good relationship.
“
I loved everything we did together, but we were at a point where it didn't feel right,
” the singer said.
In 2018, when
Bohemian Rhapsody
, Bryan Singer's biopic devoted to Freddie Mercury, hit theaters,
Variety
revealed that Universal was working on a film devoted to Prince.
The project in question was to move away from the biopic genre in favor of a “
more original
”
orientation
.
A documentary dedicated to the singer by Ava DuVernay was also started by Netflix, until the departure of the director of the project in 2019.