LadyLayla said:

P's distrust of anything he could not control probably kept directors/producers away. That being said, I'm going to throw out some movies that would have been much different had he been interested and/or approached.

Breakfast Club--P in the John Bender role, played by Judd Nelson

Whiplash--P in the JK Simmons role

Pulp Fiction--P in the Samuel L Jackson role

Oh, yes! Prince would have played an excellent juvenile delinquent, I believe, walking through in his sleep.

I could see the Amadeus thing.

*Sigh* We missed it. Hollywood missed it. We only have our own imaginations left to process the notion of delightful starring roles for the guy. That kind of career trail probably would never have worked out with him for long, though. I hear that film acting involves lots of waiting around near a set for the action to happen, and that would've likely been/was too much time for him to expend on one thing that was not music-related.

I could see him sink his acting teeth into something along the lines of Lucious Lyon, the character that Terrance Howard plays on 'Empire'. Prince could pull it off.

I can see him in The Aviator because y'know he was kinda like him (protagonist role)

I think he wasn´t really as bad as people say. He just left a bad impression because UTCM and Graffiti Bridge were marred by other factors (change of director, bad screenplay, too many changes in the script etc.) but if a talented director and a good writer had worked with Prince at some point in his career, maybe even during his later years, the results could´ve been good to great because he was a very disciplined, hardworking person who was also a movie buff. Sure, he wasn´t one to take directions from others but remember that he had a lot of respect for people he admired artistically (Larry Graham, Stevie Wonder , Nile Rodgers, etc.), and I´m sure he would´ve worked fine with a director he liked.

At least he should have done some cameo roles.

Quentin Tarantino in the mid to early 90s (before Prince stopped using profanity in his lyrics and before Quentin went over the top), or maybe Martin Scorcese. Wasn´t he interested in working with Scorcese during the early production phase of UTCM ?

Prince as Charlie Chaplin in a reamke of a Chaplin flick