Marvin Gaye Biopic: Another Attempt
There have been many attempts over the years to make a biopic about Marvin Gaye (pictured), who was shot dead by his father in 1984 aged 44. Cameron Crowe was reported last year to be attempting a film with Terrence Howard as a possible lead. F. Gary Gray was also trying to hatch a Gaye biopic. And James Gandolfini was lined up to play Gaye’s concert promoter Freddy Cousaert opposite Jesse L. Martin‘s Marvin in another project. The latest movie, to which Julien Temple was linked as a potential director at the Berlin Film Festival, plans to look at the period Gaye spent living in the sleepy seaside town of Ostend, Belgium in the early 1980s.
