Terrence Howard to Play Marvin Gaye in Cameron Crowe's Biopic?

Terrence Howard is currently in talks with director Cameron Crowe to play Marvin Gaye in a biopic that Cameron has been trying to get off the ground over at Sony for three and a half years. The role of Gaye was originally offered to Will Smith, but after he turned it down Crowe went back to the drawing board. The film is being supported by Mowtown founder Berry Gordy, who has secured the rights to Gaye's music for the movie.

If you didn't already know Howard is a signer as well, and says that Marvin Gaye was a big influence on his debut album Shine Through It. There is nothing officially yet, Howard hasne't signed on to anything. If he does end up in the role he told Deadline,

Everybody who loves music will hate me if I get this one wrong.

I can see Howard in the role of Gaye. It definitely seems like something he could really get into a do a good job at it. I think I'm more excited to see Crowe actually direct another film.

For those of you for some reason not familiar with Marvin Gaye heres a little summary of who he is and what he accomplished.

Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984), better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye, was an American singer-songwriter and instrumentalist with a three-octave vocal range. Starting as a member of the doo-wop group The Moonglows in the late fifties, he ventured into a solo career after the group disbanded in 1960 signing with the Tamla subsidiary of Motown Records. After starting off as a session drummer, Gaye ranked as the label's top-selling solo artist during the sixties.

Because of solo hits such as "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)", "Ain't That Peculiar", "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and his duet singles with singers such as Mary Wells and Tammi Terrell, he was crowned "The Prince of Motown" and "The Prince of Soul".

His mid-1970s work including the Let's Get It On and I Want You albums helped influence the quiet storm, urban adult contemporary and slow jam genres. After a self-imposed European exile in the early eighties, Gaye returned on the 1982 Grammy-winning hit, "Sexual Healing" and the Midnight Love album before his death. Gaye was tragically shot dead by his father on April 1, 1984. He was posthumously inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

In 2008, the American music magazine Rolling Stone ranked Gaye #6 on its list of The Greatest Singers of All Time, and ranked #18 on 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

What do you think about Howard possibly taking on the role of Marvin Gaye?

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