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After Netflix Scrapped His Prince Documentary, Ezra Edelman Warns That Viewers Are Being Served “Slop” With Celeb-Access Projects
The changing nature of the documentary business has seen an influx of celebrities (and their representatives) producing their own series and films over the last few years. Ezra Edelman, the Oscar-winning director of ESPN’s O.J: Made In America, is warning that viewers are being served “slop” with this approach. It comes after Netflix scrapped his […]
So, my issue is that in trading for access, you now have a lot of companies and filmmakers making deals with the subject, sanitizing their story and or their image, that to me, it’s like, of course, it serves them,” Edelman said on the Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast. One of the suggestions was that the Prince estate didn’t want some of the more troubling episodes of the Purple Rain star’s life exposed to the public. He also paid tribute to many of the people who worked on the series including Caroline Waterlow, Tamara Rosenberg, Nina Krstic, Bret Granato, Gabe Rhodes, Ben Sazanlki, Marley Cogan, Dana Hinton, Jenny Troyer and Deijah Lee Carroll.
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