by Howard Campbell
Kingston, Jamaica – With anticipation excessive for the Jamaican premiere of Bob Marley: One Love, music business veteran Wayne Jobson believes the film transcends the conventional rock star biopic.
Bob Marley: One Love, which stars British actor Kingsley Ben-Adir because the reggae king, premieres on the Carib cinema on January 23. It’s anticipated to be attended by members of the Marley household.
“That is totally different from another rockstar biopic, as a result of the opposite ones have been nearly musicians. This one is about an evangelist, which is what Bob is, who used his music to heal folks and elevate up the world. The most important music biopic of all time, Bohemian Rhapsody about Freddie Mercury was nice, however doesn’t have the spirituality of Bob,” said Jobson.
Along with Bohemian Rhapsody, there have been comparable films about rock icons Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison of The Doorways. Bob Marley: One Love, marketed and distributed by Paramount Photos, is directed by American Reinaldo Marcus-Inexperienced.
It tracks Marley’s life over a two-year span. In December, 1976 when he was shot by gunmen at his Kingston residence, to his self-imposed exile in London. Plus, his triumphant return to Jamaica in early 1978 for the One Love Peace Live performance.
Marley died in Could, 1981 from most cancers at age 36 in Miami.
Jobson, a Jamaican whose cousin Diane Jobson was Marley’s lawyer, says the proper individuals are behind the long-awaited film.
“I’m overjoyed that the Bob Marley movie lastly acquired made as a result of the entire world is aware of his music however not many individuals know the person. They’ve been attempting to make this film for 40 years and loads of nice administrators and producers have been concerned like Oliver Stone, Ron Shelton and the Weinsteins. However I by no means thought anybody may seize Bob’s magic till I met the director Reinaldo Marcus Inexperienced who’s coming off of the Academy Award-winning film King Richard and the sensible TV present We Personal This Metropolis,” he acknowledged. “After watching Kingsley Ben Adir play Malcolm X in One Evening in Miami, I knew he was the proper man to play Bob. Additionally I met Lashawn Lynch on the James Bond premier for No Time to Die in London and knew she was the right Rita (Marley, Bob’s spouse).”
Scenes for Bob Marley: One Love have been shot primarily in the UK. Final yr, the Paramount Photos crew filmed scenes recreating the One Love Peace Live performance in Kingston.
The film formally opens worldwide on February 14.
