It's not the first time a movie on Jimi Hendrix is being derailed by the Hendrix Experience Estate as they seem to dislike any initiative: they already turned down a movie script with Lenny Kravitz to act as the legendary guitar player (!).
But this time, John Ridley ( a novelist/movie director) will tell the story from a totally different angle one can expect as this movie will be the (true) story of a woman named Linda Keith, then Keith Richards' girlfriend, who discover a musician called Jimmy James and convince him to turn himself into Jimi Hendrix and will, despite the initial closed doors she encounters, get the left-handed genius to truly believe in himself. Far above another boring story about a musician and drugs/rock n'roll, this biopic might very well turn into a masterpiece and show how this very hard working musician bursted into the scene (the years are 66 and 67) and took music to an all different level.
Interesting enough, we found a 2 years old text from the director himself who talks about Linda Keith (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129855398 but...