If ever a pix had disaster plastered all over, the Andre 3000 movie has been the definition of one damn thing after anohter… forever. First and foremost, they couldn’t get permission from the Hendrix estate to use his music. That alone would be enough to make you wonder whether, in deed, this was gonna be happenning.
But they went with the blues covers instead and though the pix from the movie showed nothing like Hendriz at all -it showed Andre going Paisley but that was about it, and ps, Andre is not as cute as Hendrix and, I havne’t seen him act, but Andre looks too smart for that dazed 1983 a mermaid I will be vibe I get from him.
But apparently the arrogance goes deeper,according to gigwise.com who got it from the Sunday Express,who got it from Kathy Etchingham, who was Jimi’s girlfriend and is portrayed in the movie. “I wrote them an email when I first heard about it [the film] saying, ‘If you want any help don’t hesitate to contact me’. They didn’t reply. The film’s costumes have] Austin Powers written all over [them]; I would not be seen dead in anything like that… Andre and Hayley are much older than Jimi and I were, and it shows… A lot of people will go and see it who have never read any of the biographies and they will think it’s the gospel truth. I don’t want it [the film] to fundamentally change history.”
True you could translate that as “I didn’t get a consulting fee”, but still nobody seems too thrilled about it all, do they?