Last week news spread that Lenny Kravtiz had snagged the role of Marvin Gaye in a new bio-pic about the singer's life [click here if you missed that].
Well Marvin Gaye's son, Marvin Gaye III, is against the new film and wants his childhood friend Lenny to back out of the role...
From TMZ
Marvin Gaye III tells TMZ, "The producers and directors of this film are very wrong and shameful ... [They're] trying to do a film about a low period in his life. They don't even know the whole story."
Marvin's son says he and Kravitz were schoolmates -- and remain friends to this day -- so he wants to "talk to him about why he would do this."
Marvin Jr. tells us he and other family members are meeting with lawyers to try to stop production -- and added, "I would hope [Lenny] doesn't have any idea that we are against this film being done."
