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<\/p>\nBob Marley’s widow, Rita Marley, has inked a deal with film producers The Weinstein Co. to develop, produce and distribute the first ever biopic on the Reggae icon. The film will be based on Rita\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2004 autobiography, No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley, and screenwriter Lizzie Borden has been hired to pen the film adaptation. Rita Marley is serving as the movie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s executive producer.<\/p>\n
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\nBob Marley<\/strong>‘s widow, Rita Marley<\/strong>, has inked a deal with film producers The Weinstein Co.<\/strong> \nWhile no casting decisions have been made, Rita has already nominated Lauryn Hill<\/strong> to portray her. Hill is married to Bob Marley’s son from another relationship, Rohan<\/strong>. "Lauryn would be ideal," said Marley. "She sees my life as her life." She also said that her grandson Stefan<\/strong> is "the spitting image" of Bob and would be perfect to play the role.\n<\/p>\n \nMeanwhile, the Hollywood Reporter \nThe Bob Marley’s widow, Rita Marley, has inked a deal with film producers The Weinstein Co. to develop, produce and distribute the first ever biopic on the Reggae icon. The film will be based on Rita\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2004 autobiography, No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley, and screenwriter Lizzie Borden has been hired to pen the film adaptation. Rita Marley is serving as the movie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s executive producer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.virginiareggae.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.virginiareggae.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.virginiareggae.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.virginiareggae.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.virginiareggae.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cms.virginiareggae.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.virginiareggae.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.virginiareggae.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.virginiareggae.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.virginiareggae.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nto develop, produce and distribute the first ever biopic on the Reggae
\nicon. The film will be based on Rita’s 2004 autobiography, No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley,<\/em> and s<\/em>creenwriter Lizzie Borden<\/strong> has been hired to pen the film adaptation. Rita Marley is serving as the movie’s executive producer.\n<\/p>\n
\nsays that the musician will be played by two actors, one portraying him
\nat age 15 and another as an adult. The option of Marley’s original
\nsongs, covers sung by an actor or a Ray-style blend of the two are all possible for the soundtrack.\n<\/p>\n
\nuntitled project is tentatively set to begin filming early next year
\nwith a projected release date of late 2009. If that is the case, it
\nwill arrive before Martin Scorsese<\/strong>‘s documentary on the performer, which is set for release on what would be Marley’s 65th birthday: February 6, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"