Director of Netflix's canceled 9hr Prince Documentary "The Book of Prince" warns viewers to beware of subject-managed and approved "Slop" being served to them by streamers and platforms.

https://deadline.com/2025/03/prince-ezra-edelman-celeb-slop-1236310672/

Director Ezra Edelman, who also made the 30 for 30 masterpiece "OJ: Made in America" is uh... pretty fucking pissed off about the Prince Estate shitcanning his 9hr documentary, "The Book of Prince" and has some things to say to the Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast,

“Right now, we live in a culture and in a documentary universe, and in some ways in a journalistic universe, where the subject gets to dictate who they are to everybody. And that is not the way that the Fourth Estate was set up. So, my issue is that in trading for access, you now have a lot of companies and filmmakers making deals with the subject, sanitizing their story and or their image... Of course, there are movies being made with subjects that have some say in how the story is told or are getting paid for the access, which to me is a no-no, and gets to be a producer of their own story... The sad thing is that the public is somewhere between “doesn’t seem to care or know the difference. It’s like they’re being served slop, and they’re getting used to the fact that this is like, oh, I guess this is like fucking like short rib. And I’m like, it’s not. It’s slop....The image I’ve had in my head is the last show of Raiders of the Lost Ark, of just a huge warehouse somewhere in Netflix. A crate and just like put away,” he said, adding that viewers won’t ever be able to see it because he doesn’t “feel like getting sued"

Someone's gonna leak this shit. I'm almost certain of it. If there's one thing Prince fans know how to do, it's to find things that are utterly unavailable and unleakable, and set that shit free.

edit: Youtube link to the full Pablo Torre Finds Out episode featuring Ezra Edelman

edit edit: Youtube link to the Pablo Torre Finds Out episode featuring Wesley Morris, talking about seeing the doc in question (shouts to u/oco82 for making me aware of this one!)