Ive not read the book, but i sincerely hope its more insightful than the movie. The controversial tv movie finally gets its premiere. It was controversial because aaliyahs family objected to its production. Mtv shares rare aaliyah clip for the 18th anniversary of. But there was much more to aaliyah than choreographed dance moves, movie roles, and a celebrated voice. Before beyonce and rihanna, selfproclaimed street but sweet aaliyah was poised to become a global icon. Alexandra was only a young girl when aaliyah was tragically.
She might be well known to many of my readers, but i had never listened to her music before watching the film today. Certainly her life and career contains stories worth telling, but the lifetime movie aaliyah. Support the guardian available for everyone, funded by readers. Lifetimes aaliyah biopic casts its missy elliott and. The madefortv film was produced for the lifetime cable network and aired in 2015. The story of music and video star aaliyah, whose life ended tragically in a 2001 plane crash in the bahamas. With alexandra shipp, elise neal, lyriq bent, morgan kelly. More than a woman by christopher john farley, the film arrives on dvd and digital hd via lionsgate on march 10. Timbaland, fans blast lifetime for aaliyah biopic variety. Nickelodeon star alexandra shipp, who replaced zendaya after she backed out of the film, now has her missy elliott and timbaland. So advance controversy about the casting, among other things, can only benefit aaliyah.
After all, a lot of people idolized the rising star from her hometown of detroit to england. We havent seen a movie get dragged this bad since mariah carey made her big debut in glitter. The biopic stars alexandra shipp as the young, ambitious singer and actress who spends her youth working toward stardom. Having watched the recent biopic about the late singer aaliyah, miss o gives her impressions of the film and the reactions of other viewers. The film was met with an immense amount of backlash by the fans, close associates of the songstress, and provided an endless string of memes. Like buddy holly decades earlier, aaliyah haughton perished in a plane crash at age 22. After months of anticipation and a major cast shakeup, lifetime has released the very first trailer for the networks upcoming biopic aaliyah. The film premiered on the lifetime channel on november 15, 2014 and was met with criticism in its early stages of production due to aaliyahs familys disapproval of lifetimes choice to create the film. It was released on july 7, 2001, by blackground records and virgin records america aaliyah started to work on the album in 1998, but rescheduled its recording around her developing film career.
1361 944 422 725 360 1601 549 1260 36 1620 1520 1681 442 401 152 1363 1246 961 269 281 1628 1245 490 184 813 205 622 611 1353 753 342 269 788 375 918