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00:10I loved James Brown as an artist growing up in junior high and high school
00:16Loved the sound, loved the beat as a kid
00:19And that's kind of where it began
00:22And when I first saw him in New York
00:24I copied his music straight away
00:26I couldn't do them but I did them
00:28I just did my, my versions
00:32The notion of doing a movie came about 14 years ago
00:36I met James Brown several times
00:38I went to several of his concerts
00:41And I ended up getting the rights from James Brown to his life story
00:45And I had several different writers work on this trip
00:49I was prepared to make the movie and James Brown died
00:54Everything gets shaken up
00:56Now I can't make the movie because the rights are split
00:58With family members in the state of Georgia
01:00And I'm very distraught by this and don't know what to do
01:03James Brown writes it all over the place
01:06And luckily I was able to get all the music rights
01:09And that had been one of the big sticking points before
01:11And this friend of mine said
01:12Would you like to do a James Brown documentary?
01:15And I said, sounds great, but let me just think about it overnight
01:18And I woke up in the morning
01:20And I called him and I said
01:22Why don't we do a James Brown feature?
01:26Echo, march
01:27Echo, march
01:28We found, you know, that there was an existing project
01:32That had been hibernating for quite a long time
01:34And that Brian Grazer was the one that had the original project
01:38I get an incoming call from Mick Jagger
01:41Saying, I now have the rights to James Brown
01:44The script was by the Butterworth brothers who are an English playwright
01:48And I was very impressed
01:49I thought the script actually was really, really good
01:51And he says, I'd like to do this with you
01:53I read the script that you developed
01:55I like the script
01:56There's work to be done
01:57But I trust you, Brian
01:58I'm sure you trust me
02:00I say, of course, Mick
02:01And we join forces and become producers together on the movie James Brown
02:06We agreed we would find the most compatible director to this material
02:11And before we could even prioritize the list
02:13I have this chance meeting with Tate Taylor
02:16Who wrote and directed The Health
02:18So Tate Taylor immediately reads our script
02:21And says, this is the movie I'm gonna get to listen to
02:24I just saw my way in and tell that story
02:27And I thought, I'm from the South
02:29I know James Brown and I know the world of James Brown
02:32As far as filming in Mississippi
02:34There's no better place for contradiction, paradox, beauty, pain, old, new
02:41Than the real South
02:43Mick Jagger and I are thrilled to be producing Get On Up
02:46It's a true story
02:48Completely inspirational
02:50Celebrating James Brown's life
02:52And just incredible
02:53I don't need him now
02:56Fight!
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