Crazy Legs Developing Prince Biopic Based On First Wife Mayte Garcia’s Memoir ‘The Most Beautiful’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Crazy Legs Features has nabbed film rights to The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince, the bestseller from Mayte Garcia, chronicling her romance with the iconic musical artist, for development as a scripted biopic.
With the WGA strike in the rearview mirror, the company is now in search of a writer to pen the adaptation. The first wife of the superstar born Prince Rogers Nelson, Mayte’s New York Times bestseller offers a never-before-seen perspective on Prince through their intensely personal relationship that shows a depth and nuance never revealed of the famously private and beloved artist.
The book’s title is inspired by the hit song Prince wrote about their legendary love story that started backstage at a concert.
What began as a friendship between two artists blossomed into a romance, thrived as a fairytale from their wedding day, and then struggled due to the devastating losses that ultimately ended their marriage in 2000.
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