The movie entitled 'All Is By My Side’ will include cover songs from the likes of The Beatles.
The movie which is to star rapper Andre 3000 of Outkast fame in the lead role will, go ahead without permission from the late stars estate to use his music.
So, 3000 will be singing cover versions of material be Muddy Waters and The Beatles but this is thought to be true to life, in that Hendrix was doing just that in 1966/67 anyway.
The film will depict Hendrix covering 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band', which the rocker did in his early days as a backing musician whilst members of The Beatles famously watched from the audience of a London club.
The rockers sister Janie has control of her late brothers estate and a statement has been released by them stating that it 'has made it known many times in the past that no such film, were it to include original music or copyrights created by Jimi Hendrix, can be undertaken without its full participation'.
It further added: “They want to make a Jimi Hendrix movie without Jimi Hendrix music. It would be like making a movie about Lincoln without being able to use the Gettysburg Address.”
But the movie’s producer Sean McKittrick reckons there was never any intention to use Hendrix music in the film and permission to do so was never sought.
Hendrix died at the tender age of just 27 in London’s Notting Hill district in September 1970 of a suspected drug overdose, having spent the night partying.
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