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. Wendy williams isnt letting the haters get her down. Lifetimes aaliyah movie is as bad as you expected it to. Lifetime also released a new still from the film showing. Lifetime didnt license any of aaliyahs music, but it did use some of the covers she did like the isley brothers at your best you are love and marvin gayes got to give it up. Zendaya to play aaliyah in new lifetime original movie. The ny daily news reports that they liked the original script for the film entitled.
Black twitter drags lifetimes aaliyah movie just add. The real tragedy of lifetimes aaliyah movie is the exploitation of her legacy a tv movie that nobody asked for and nobody wants to see. Watch the trailer for lifetimes controversial aaliyah biopic. Get a sneak peek at lifetimes original movie, aaliyah. Lifetimes stiff treatment of the life of aaliyah haughton, aaliyah. The lifetime app gives you full access to all the reality, drama and movies lifetime has to offer. With interest at an alltime high, the network fast tracked the controversial tv movie and now its premiering november 15. The princess of r and b biopic that chronicles the career of music legend aaliyah, whose life ended tragically in a 2001 plane crash in the bahamas. The film is based on christopher john farleys aaliyah. Lifetime has released the first teaser from its highly anticipated aaliyah biopic. Since her passing, controversy has surrounded the use and manipulation of her material by artists like drake and chris brown, who have jumped on unreleased aaliyah tracks to add verses and have copped her voice for their own respective songs. Ok, guys i had to do this quick cause i was so disappointed, so tell me what your thoughts were. The lifetime app gives you full access to all the reality, drama, and movies lifetime has to offer.
If were to believe the movie, it was always aaliyah never a famehungry momager or stage dad who wanted a. Aaliyah was a gogetter, and lifetime made sure that was apparent. At least part of the reason for this films failure is structural aaliyahs family. We wont have to wait until 2015 to watch lifetimes aaliyah biopic, aaliyah. Just wait a few minutes, and then you will finish downloading the video. More than a woman, experienced a lot of setbacks during. The real tragedy of lifetimes aaliyah movie is the. 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. Lifetime is in big trouble this weekend, as fans voice their concern about a series of unsavory tweets sent out saturday night during the airing of aaliyah. How lifetime can learn from all the aaliyah movie hate. Honestly lifetime, if you could not have handled a story as aaliyahs better than this, i think you should not have taken up the responsibility of doing a movie. Much like the 22yearolds legacy, the lifetime movie aaliyah. Aaliyah biopic coming to lifetime a movie about aaliyah, who died in a plane crash in 2001, is expected on the lifetime channel this fall. Lifetime s stiff treatment of the life of aaliyah haughton, aaliyah.
Nickelodeon star alexandra shipp, who replaced zendaya after she backed out of the film, now has her missy elliott and timbaland. Do you think from all you know about aaliyah and all you heard. The good news is that it executes those expectations flawlessly. Aaliyah biopic starring zendaya in the works at lifetime. Following its whitney houston biopic announcement, lifetime has announced that it is also planning aaliyah movie starring disney channel star turned singer zendaya coleman. Sorry for the rush job guys more videos coming soon look me up on. Clearly, this lifetime movie was not an ideal way to service her memory. Twitter was not happy with lifetimes aaliyah biopic. Everything i liked about lifetimes terrible aaliyah movie. Black twitter drags lifetimes aaliyah movie by monique on sunday, november 16, 2014 i did not see lifetimes aaliyah movie, produced by wendy williams, who took up the helm after zendaya left the project and it seemed like lifetime was going to shelve the project. This weekends lifetime movie about the life of aaliyah was the latest example. Take our poll unfortunately, the film, based on christopher farley s book aaliyah. The movies original star, singer and disney star zendaya. Lifetime is basing its movie on the bestselling biography, aaliyah.
Lifetime has released the trailer for their controversial upcoming aaliyah biopic. Lifetimes aaliyah biopic casts its missy elliott and. Lifetimes aaliyah biopic is the laughingstock of the internet. Lifetime announces new aaliyah film, zendaya cast in lead. Stream full episodes of lifetime series and original movies, including dance moms, married at first sight, bring it, rap game, and more. Shipp joined the film late, taking on the role after zendaya. Its monday and everyones still talking about the skid marks left behind by lifetimes biopic, aaliyah. Timbaland blasts aaliyahs lifetime movie and with no aaliyah music cleared, the musical aspect of the biopic was absolutely horrenduous. The movie has long been attacked for both its casting alexandra shipp stars, following zendayas exit and for going on without aaliyahs familys approval. On saturday, lifetime will air its aaliyah biopic, aaliyah. Instead of digging deep and edifying audiences about segments of. Lifetimes aaliyah biopic should never have been made.
Where lifetime went wrong with the aaliyah movie and what. More than a woman, written by former time music critic christopher. The 16second clip, which was posted on the networks facebook page friday, features alexandra shipp as the. Wendy williams is proud of her aaliyah lifetime movie. Timbaland clearly thinks lifetime deserves every ounce of crap being flung their way for the aaliyah biopic that premiered saturday. Watch your favorite lifetime shows on your mobile device or tablet, including iphone, ipad. Others like timbaland not giving approval of the movie. The story of music and video star aaliyah, whose life ended tragically in a 2001 plane crash in the bahamas. The original movie will be based on the bestselling book aaliyah.
Download the lifetime app for your ios or android device. With alexandra shipp, elise neal, lyriq bent, morgan kelly. L ifetime will air their muchmaligned aaliyah biopic, aaliyah. The upcoming lifetime channel movie is tentatively titled aaliyah. As the executive producer of lifetimes controversial aaliyah biopic, which premiered on.
Watch hours of full episodes of dance moms, project runway, little women and more. Alexandra shipp stars as aaliyah in the allnew lifetime original movie, aaliyah. All of your favorite lifetime shows and movies are available wherever and whenever you want, right on your android device. The cable network announced monday its plan for an original movie tentatively titled aaliyah. Being he was there from when her career really took off. From the very start of the project, lifetime had issues with aaliyahs familys objections about the film. Get the scoop before you watch the lifetime movie though she was only 22 when she died in a plane crash on august 25.
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