Jimi Hendrix Doc in the Works From Director Bao Nguyen

The Biggest Evening in Pop director Bao Nguyen has been tapped to helm Jimi, a characteristic documentary concerning the origin story for the legendary rock star Jimi Hendrix.

Licensed for the primary time by the Jimi Hendrix property, the movie is produced by Community Leisure, financier Double Agent and Expertise Hendrix.

“Telling the story of Jimi Hendrix throughout his pivotal years in London is each a profound honor and a novel duty. London has all the time been a metropolis that conjures up me. Having lived there, I felt a deep connection to its artistic power, very similar to Jimi did when his creativity reached extraordinary heights,” Nguyen mentioned in a press release on Friday.

The director was just lately nominated for 3 Emmys for his work on The Biggest Evening in Pop. Produced with Lionel Richie, the movie recalled the making of a profit single for African famine aid and the celebrity artists that formed the music into one of many fastest-selling pop songs of all time, “We Are the World.”

His different documentary credit embrace Reside From New York!, the Tribeca title that celebrated 40 years of Saturday Evening Reside, and Be Water, a movie about Bruce Lee for ESPN.

Nguyen’s newest challenge will chronicle the rise of Hendrix because the unsung sideman Jimmy James arriving in Sixties London and reaching breakout success when performing on the Monterey Pop Competition. On the heigh of his fame, Hendrix died from a drug overdose in 1970.

Jimi will characteristic interviews, never-before-seen photographs and archival footage to painting the famed guitarist.

Producers on Jimi are Derik Murray, Dana O’Keefe and Janie Hendrix, whereas Yariv Milchan, Natalie Lehmann, Teddy Schwarzman, Michael Heimler, Brian Gersh, Colin Smeeton, Matthew Gross and Ryan Beedie will government produce.