That was one of my primary questions … I took them at their word, and clearly that wasn’t the case.”Ī post shared by Yasiin Bey by Alberto Marzan and Peter Lord Moreland of Jupiter Rising Film, Thelonious is scheduled to begin production in the summer of 2022.
To be clear, I was given every indication by the production company that the family was on board. Monk III is not happy with it, then neither am I. Monk’s statement on Thursday: “Let me be clear, if the Monk estate is not happy with it, if Mr. In an Instagram video, Bey responded to T.S. “There is no involvement by anyone in the Monk family with this project, and we actually condemn the effort.” “I hate the script and I control the music in Thelonious’s catalogue,” T.S. Monk - Thelonious Monk’s son and the chairman of the company that runs the Thelonious Monk estate - told Pitchfork less than 24 hours later that the “project and its announcement are totally unauthorized.” On Wednesday, it was announced that Yasiin Bey, the musician formerly known as Mos Def, would play legendary jazz pianist Thelonious Monk in an upcoming biopic. By Adam Feibel Thelonious Monk in New York in 1947 William P.