Ezra Edelman’s nine-hour Netflix Prince documentary might have been canned, but the director is not going quietly. “I am after some catharsis, if not closure, to move on,” he tells the Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast, after objections from the Prince Estate about the content of his completed Netflix film eventually resulted in it being shelved.
The final nail in the coffin for Edelman’s documentary, The Book of Prince, came last month (February 2025). “The Prince Estate and Netflix have come to a mutual agreement that will allow the estate to develop and produce a new documentary featuring exclusive content from Prince’s archive,” Netflix said in a statement sent to the Minnesota Star Tribune. “As a result, the Netflix documentary will not be released.”
