Amazon, an American multinational tech company, has landed worldwide rights to Peter Berg’s directed documentary about Barbadian superstar and business mogul Rihanna, for $25 million.
The firm, which specializes in cloud computing, digital streaming, e-commerce, and artificial intelligence, just purchased the project. This comes shortly after Apple’s similar $25 million deal with American Billie Eilish.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the project would offer “an unfiltered look” into Rihanna’s life”. Also, it would provide a glimpse into her evolution as one of the world’s most popular artistes in a video spanning more than 1,200 hours.
Describing the experience working on the project, Berg was quoted to have said, “To go travel with Rihanna around Europe, and Rihanna is surrounded by girls. We were in France. She was going to do a concert on Bastille Day.
“And that truck driver who killed all those people plowed through them right in front of our hotel. So even in me trying to do something light, I had a very, very front-row seat to something that horrific.”
Prior to the forthcoming Amazon documentary project with Rihanna, the duo had worked together. Berg and Rihanna worked on Universal’s ‘Battleship’, a military science fiction action film that is loosely based on the board game of the same name.
