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“Bob Marley: One Love”: the essential and very difficult making of a film about the reggae icon

2024-02-09T10:53:55.630Z

Highlights: “Bob Marley: One Love”: the essential and very difficult making of a film about the reggae icon. Martin Scorsese gave up in 2008. Jonathan Demme, buoyed by the success of “Silence of the Lambs”, takes up this documentary project. Before throwing in the towel, following a disagreement with the singer's family, who has managed the rights since his death in 1981. It took forty-three years since the death of Bob Marley for a feature film to be released.


THE PARISIAN WEEKEND. It took forty-three years since the death of Bob Marley for a feature film (in theaters on February 14) to be released.


Bringing Bob Marley's story to the screen was a long process. Some big names in cinema lost their teeth.

Failing to find an actor worthy of playing the king of reggae, and to ensure safe filming in Trench Town, the Kingston slum where his legend was built, Martin Scorsese gave up in 2008.

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Jonathan Demme, buoyed by the success of “Silence of the Lambs”, takes up this documentary project.

Before throwing in the towel, following a disagreement with the singer's family, who has managed the rights since his death in 1981.

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