Ezra Edelman, the director of Netflix's cancelled Prince documentary, has spoken out about the streamer's decision.
Ezra Edelman described Netflix axing his nine-hour programme about the late singer as a "joke".
The director did not hold his opinions back during an appearance on the Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast that was published this week.
He claimed Prince's estate had been granted permission to point out any factual errors they found in his project, but instead delivered "a 17-page document full of editorial issues, not factual issues."
Ezra, who won an Oscar for his 2016 OJ Simpson documentary, O.J. Made In America, added, "You think I have any interest in putting out a film that's factually inaccurate?"
He explained he believed the keepers of Prince's estate did not want too much of the singer's "humanity" to be on show.
"Everything about who you believe he is is in this movie," Ezra said.
"You get to bathe in his genius. And yet you also have to confront his humanity, which he, by the way, in some ways, was trapped in not being able to expose, because he got trapped in his own myth about who he was to the world, and he had to maintain it."
Netflix cancelled the documentary's planned release last month, announcing it would instead produce a new show featuring, "exclusive content from Prince's archive."
