Weinstein Company option rights to Bob Marley project
The brothers Weinstein have optioned the book “No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley,” by Rita Marley. The widow of reggae legend Bob Marley cashes in on their plans to develop and produce a biopic about the legendary Jamaican singer.
The ‘Bob Marley project ‘is anticipated to release theatrically in 2009 and the source material chronicles the Marley relationship which began in 1966. Bob Marley fathered four children with Rita but may have fathered as many as 18 other children with other women.
Dying of cancer at age 36 in 1981, the Bob and Rita saga “is an amazing love story” said The Weinstein Company’s Michael Cole.
Cole continues to say:
“This is about a girl from the ghetto and a boy from the rural areas,” Marley said. “It’s more than being a superstar — we have trod the rocky roads. It’s more than just a story, it’s a reality.”
Rudy Langlais (”The Hurricane“) will produce the script by Lizzie Borden (”Working Girls“), and Rita Marley is on board as an executive producer.
Warner Bros. had previously optioned Timothy White’s “Catch a Fire” book in order to produce a film, but the missing link was Rita Marley who controls the music rights to the Marley catalogue and without those rights a movie is less viable.
Martin Scorsese is directing a documentary on Marley with Ziggy Marley co-producing. That film is set to release on Feb. 6, 2010, which would have been Bob Marley’s 65th birthday.
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