I looked to see if anyone posted this already, and didn't see anything. No reason is given for her departure, other than the usual "creative differences".

"“I like to surprise,” DuVernay says, avoiding specifics. She does note she’s no longer working on Netflix’s multipart Prince documentary, saying she had “creative differences” with the company after working for a year on the project. “It just didn’t work out,” she says. “There’s a lot of beautiful material there. I wish them well.”"

Full article here:

https://www.latimes.com/e...five-emmys

Wait, this article is two days old and only now someone noticed this? Back then the news of her doing this doc was all over the place.

Chaos & Confusion

I'm actually glad. She's just not a good filmmaker. She may have pleasantly surprised me, but she always seemed like an odd choice.

“I like to surprise,” DuVernay says, avoiding specifics. She does note she’s no longer working on Netflix’s multipart Prince documentary, saying she had “creative differences” with the company after working for a year on the project. “It just didn’t work out,” she says. “There’s a lot of beautiful material there. I wish them well.”

Hmm. So if I'm reading this correctly, she had differences with Netflix, NOT the Estate? Then again, I have to assume Netflix and the Estate are in tandem on what exactly they want from this multi-part series. If Netflix is sitting on all of this material, I have to assume another director will jump on this soon. Hopefully a good one.

Ava puts in a year's worth of work on a documentary, and then leaves because of "creative differences"?

Something in the water does not compute.

ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:

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Money.

I'm sure

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Ugot2shakesumthin said:

I'm actually glad. She's just not a good filmmaker. She may have pleasantly surprised me, but she always seemed like an odd choice.

The two movies I've seen that she directed, Selma and 13th I thought were well-made.

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rdhull said:

Thank god.

Laughing because that was EXACTLY my first thought.

While Wrinkle was terrible her documentary type films (When they see us!) are great and her name would have given it cred and a wider audience. This is a bad sign and I'm sure does not bode well for this project.

This explains why the "top secret" project hasn't been talked about lately. I was SO looking forward to an ULTRA private screening.

Now the only thing to look forward to is.

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emesem said:

Who?

Nobody can seem to get it together when it comes to Prince.

Creative differences? I think that's code for not keeping to a time schedule and budget for project. Or they want to focus on the addiction aspect?

I fear that this will now be a rehash of his 80's glory days full of associate commentary giving their version of the truth. I was looking forward to Duvernay doing this in his words and sourced almost exclusively from vault video/audio. Prince trusted her, but someone that is administering the Estate does not trust her creative input. Shame.

donnyenglish said:

I fear that this will now be a rehash of his 80's glory days full of associate commentary giving their version of the truth.

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Again you are making shit up based on zero evidence.

BartVanHemelen said:

donnyenglish said:

I fear that this will now be a rehash of his 80's glory days full of associate commentary giving their version of the truth.

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Again you are making shit up based on zero evidence.

Except that everything that they have released thus far has been full of former associate commentary.

purplethunder3121 said:

I am kind of relieved that she is off the Prince project. I mean, ever since I found out that she was in that Oprah the Snake Winfrey, Gayle King and those other black/whyte feminist/lesbian clique of Hollywierd - I grew leery of her heading this Prince Docuseries!

Anyway in any case we can't control or suggest what's the Estate or whoever in charge of the Prince's Legacy gonna do next 4 the best or the worst ! That's it

I believe Ava would have done an amazing job. Too many hands in the pot interfering

rnb said:

I am kind of relieved that she is off the Prince project. I mean, ever since I found out that she was in that Oprah the Snake Winfrey, Gayle King and those other black/whyte feminist/lesbian clique of Hollywierd - I grew leery of her heading this Prince Docuseries!

Same here, Duvernay has said some sideways stuff and I don't trust her judgement. Seems to be a Harpo lap dog.

My thoughts - and pure speculation - is that the estate didn't like the angle she was trying to spin the Prince story and subsesquently booted her.

This docu is very important for Prince's legacy. The hardcore fans of the Org know his history, but many young and old alike don't know much concerning his life and career.

My only hope is that they don't allow his name to be associated with politicized material again, after the dumpster fire that was Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman closing scene.

Matter of fact, take this as a vote of no confidence on Spike if they're considering him. Those Michael Jackson documentaries he did sucked.

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rnb said:

I am kind of relieved that she is off the Prince project. I mean, ever since I found out that she was in that Oprah the Snake Winfrey, Gayle King and those other black/whyte feminist/lesbian clique of Hollywierd - I grew leery of her heading this Prince Docuseries!

I'm not a fan of Oprah either but was does this supposed to mean?

onlyforaminute said:

purplethunder3121 said:

Nobody can seem to get it together when it comes to Prince.

These words. 😕

Waiting for the wheels to turn... At least we have org members like Duane Tudahl who put out a great book on Prince...but he'd been working on that for 20 years!