Marvin Gaye Hits the Big Screen.

Via Variety.

F. Gary Gray will direct “Marvin,” a biopic of Marvin Gaye, the iconic singer who was shot to death by his father in 1984. C. Gaby Mitchell (“Blood Diamond”) is aboard to write the script.

David Foster will produce with Duncan McGillivray, [the group has] the complete music rights to Gaye’s catalog, including the hits that made him Motown’s biggest solo male star.

Those tunes include “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” “Heard It Through the Grapevine,” “What’s Goin’ On” and “Let’s Get It On.” Plan is to have the star of the film lip synch to Gaye’s recordings.

“My mantra was, no music, no movie, but to me, the core story is a man who spent his whole life trying to justify and prove himself to a father who beat him down physically and later mentally,” said McGillivray. “His father was a cross-dressing, alcoholic Baptist minister who was let off the hook for shooting his son.”

This is dope. The greatest soul singer of all time will finally get his shine on the big screen. I hope they pull this off correctly, and do this man's life justice. There's nothing worse than a wasted golden opportunity. The freshest part is that they have access to his whole catalogue, so the music in the movie is phenomenal. And I'm glad they are goign to have the actor lucky enough to play Marvin just lipsynch, rather than try to recreate his song, that would be damn near impossible. Nobody has ever had a voice as silky smooth as Marvin. Nobody.