Dearly beloved, an eagerly-anticipated documentary about Prince has been canceled. Netflix, which had planned to stream the Ezra Edelman directed project, released a statement Thursday, along with the estate for the late singer,

Netflix will no longer release a nine-hour documentary about Prince after years of production. The late singer's estate will develop its own film.

Netflix has canceled the release of what was supposed to be a six-part Prince documentary directed by Ezra Edelman. "The Prince Estate and Netflix have come to a mutual agreement that will allow the estate to develop and produce a new documentary featuring exclusive content from Prince’s archive,