About three years ago, on my blog I posted a cast list I can come up with for any Prince biopic. I ran across it today while searching for a non-Prince post. Here's what I had come up with on May 17, 2013. Here is/was my tentative cast listing:

• Miguel - Prince
• Donald Glover - Andre Cymone
• Zoe Saldana - Sheila E. *
• Erykah Badu - Denise Matthews / Vanity +
• Eric Benet - Morris Day
• Terrence Howard - Alexander O'Neal
• Will Smith - Jerome Benton
• Samuel L. Jackson - John L. Nelson
• Anthony Anderson - Jimmy “Jam” Harris
• Ne-Yo - Terry Lewis
• Mia Maestro - Mayte Garcia
• Octavia Spenser - Mattie Nelson Baker
• Morris Chestnut - Hayward Baker
• Bradley Cooper - Owen Husney
• Justin Chatwin - Chris Moon
• Kat Dennings - Wendy Melvoin
• Emma Stone - Susannah Melvoin
• Jennifer Lawrence - Lisa Coleman
• Christina Ricci - Jill Jones
• George Clooney - Steve Fargnoli
• Jon Hamm - Robert Cavallo

* alternate Zoe Kravtiz

+ alternate Rosario Dawson

I'm sure everyone's going to have issues with whatever role & actor, but it's an interesting take, I think, on potential players. Yes yes I know "no one can play Prince", "I hope there's not a Lifetime movie" (I'd agree on both counts). But it's all in good fun.

'Eric Benet'