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Netflix announced in February it had\u00a0canceled the planned docuseries on Prince<\/strong>, and now the director of the series is speaking out about the decision.<\/p>\n

Ezra Edelman<\/strong>, who also directed O.J. Made in America<\/em>, told the Pablo Torre Finds Out<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>podcast that Netflix\u2019s decision to axe the series is \u201ca joke.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cancellation\u00a0followed a dispute with Prince\u2019s estate over what they claimed were factual inaccuracies in the film, something Edelman disputes. In fact, he says while Netflix allowed the estate to check the facts of the film, \u201cThey came back with a 17-page document full of editorial issues \u2014 not factual issues. You think I have any interest in putting out a film that is factually inaccurate?\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the estate\u2019s fight against the doc, Edelman said, \u201cIt’s a joke. I can’t get past this \u2014 the short-sightedness of a group of people whose interest is their own bottom line.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a gift \u2014 a nine-hour treatment about an artist that was, by the way, f***** brilliant,\u201d he said. \u201cEverything about who you believe he is is in this movie. You get to bathe in his genius. But you also have to confront his humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edelman adds that\u00a0the battle over the film was not about the truth, but about \u201cwho has control.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis [is] reflective of Prince himself, who was notoriously one of the most famous control freaks in the history of artists,\u201d he said. \u201cThe irony being that Prince was somebody who fought for artistic freedom, who didn\u2019t want to be held down by Warner Bros., who he believed was stifling sort of his output.”<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd now, in this case \u2014 by the way, I\u2019m not Prince, but I worked really hard making something, and now my art\u2019s being stifled and thrown away,” he added.<\/p>\n

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