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After all the hoopla, the petitions, and backlash surrounding the upcoming Lifetime movie Aaliyah: Princess of R&B, in a surprising move which no one saw coming the films star Zendaya Coleman has pulled out of the film.
A source told E! News that there were production issues, including problems obtaining the rights to Aaliyah’s music. The R&B star and Queen of the Damned actress died at age 22 in a plane crash on Aug. 25, 2001.
“Aaliyah has always been an inspiration to Zendaya,” the source said. “She was honored to portray her and pay tribute to her. If she is going to do it, she wants to do it right.”
Lifetime had said that the tentative title of the movie was Aaliyah: Princess of R&B and that the biopic will be based off of Christopher Farley’s best-selling biography Aaliyah: More Than a Woman. The project was set to begin filming in the summer and air this fall.
As previously reported Aaliyah’s family had issued statements that they were unhappy with the production of the movie and wanted the film to be a theater film versus a made for TV bio-pic. They also expressed that they had not been contacted by Lifetime at all and planned to block the production of the film and also would prohibit them from using any of Aaliyah’s music in the film.
It was just this week though that Zendaya sat down with Access Hollywood and opened up about the movie including the criticism with her playing Aaliyah, winning the role fair and square and that Lifetime were in talks with Aaliyah’s family to come to an agreement, but it appears those talks fell through. Check out that interview below.
