The Marley Biopic is being refused licensing rights to Bob Marley’s music
Although Rita Marley is the executive producer of the biopic that will highlight her life with Bob Marley, the family is refusing the production company, the Weinstein Company, access to Bob Marley’s catalog of music. Why? It’s reported that a competing documentary on Marley’s life, which will be directed by Martin Scorsese, is the source of the problem. The Scorsese documentary already licensed Marley’s music, and the family fears that the Weinstein’s biopic will interfere with the success of the documentary, as both are slated to be released within a few months of each other (the Weinstein biopic has a release date is late 2009 and the Scorcese documentary has a February 2010 release date). Rita Marley has stated that, “When I sold the film rights to my book (For the Weinstein film) the contract did not include any rights to use my husband’s music.”
Ziggy Marley is the executive producer of the Scorsese led documentary. There are currently efforts by Chris Blackwell, the president of Blue Mountain Music which is Marley’s music publisher, to postpone the Weinstein biopic but no agreement has been reached.
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