Aaliyah’s Family Wants Biopic STOPPED!!!
Yesterday we reported on the Lifetime Aaliyah biopic, but now we are hearing that the Haughton family is FURIOUS with the network.
CelebNMusic247.com has just got word via 4UMF.com that Haughton‘s family is on the attack against “Lifetime” vowing to stop production on her biopic. The family feels that Aaliyah deserves to have a theatrical release for her biopic, NOT a made for TV movie.
Lifetime plans to start filming this summer chronicling the R&B singer’s life and tragic death. 17-year-old Disneyactress Zendaya has been cast as Aaliyah who died in 2001 in a plane crash.
The “Rock The Boat” singer’s uncle and former manager, Barry Hankerson, says the family is pissed that no one from the network contacted them about the movie.
Hankerson says the family will block any attempt on Lifetime’s part to use any of Aaliyah’s music. He says the family has hired a lawyer and will do everything they can to block release of the flick.
The family is not opposed to a big, theatrical film, but thinks a TV movie is too small for someone as big as the “More Than A Woman” singer.
At this time, no response from Lifetime.
Thoughts?
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