Director Julien Temple was given the official go-ahead to make the film. It is understood that directors Cameron Crowe and F Gary Gray have already made unsuccessful attempts to bring Gaye's story to the big screen.

According to Screen Daily.com, the film will focus on Gaye's final studio album, 'Midnight Love.' Recorded in Brussels, the album -- and its smash-hit single, 'Sexual Healing', succeeded in re-establishing Gaye as musical force after years of cocaine addiction had left his career on the rocks. Gaye was forced into exile in Europe in 1981 after a long-running battle with the IRS.

Filming is set to take place in Ostend, Belgium -- the town that Gaye called home during his period away from the US in the early 80s.  The movie is believed to center on the relationship between Gaye and Belgian promoter Freddy Cousaert, the man who persuaded Gaye to return to the US and stage a comeback. No casting decisions have been made and it is unknown whether the film will including Gaye's slaying at the hands of his father, Marvin Gaye Senior.

F. Gary Gray (Friday and Italian Job) was rumored back in 2008 to be on schedule to direct this film.  The biggest obstacle Gray had to face, like all the other directors and producers wanting to make this story, was securing the rights to Marvin Gaye's music.  Gray said his movie would cover Gaye's entire life, from his emergence at Motown through his defiance of Berry Gordy to record "What's Goin' On" and on up to his death.  There is also a rival pic, "Sexual Healing," produced by James Gandolfini (The Sopranos), who has a role, and starring Jesse L. Martin, will focus on the singer's declining years, because the filmmakers have rights to use songs only from his post-Motown career.

Just Me:  I would have rather saw F. Gary Gray direct this film.  He seemed so passionate about this project and I'm sure he would have stayed true to the real story.  Since this film is only going to talk about Gaye's later years of his career, how could we get a picture and vision of who he really was?  Imagine the movie Ray with Jamie Foxx.  Could you imagine not seeing his childhood with his mom and his brother and how that shaped who he was as a person?   I guess one lesson to learn is you can have all the vision in the world but if you can't secure music rights from greedy record companies, your movie might not be made.