Netflix is reportedly transferring ahead with its Constructing The Band collection, which includes late One Course member Liam Payne.
Final summer time, Payne joined The Pussycat Dolls’ Nicole Scherzinger and Kelly Rowland of Future’s Baby as a choose on Constructing The Band, a brand new band competitors collection from Netflix. The collection was filmed in completion over the summer time, however was in its post-production course of on the time of Payne’s tragic loss of life in October.
Payne died on October 16 final yr after falling from a third-floor balcony on the CasaSur Palermo Resort. The Argentinian prosecutor’s workplace shared on the time that the explanation for loss of life was attributable to a number of traumas and inner and exterior bleeding.
Following Payne’s premature loss of life, manufacturing on Constructing The Band was halted, although Netflix by no means introduced its intentions to scrap the challenge. Now, per The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix is trying to transfer ahead with its manufacturing and is eager on airing the ultimate outcomes.
Throughout a particular presentation occasion in Los Angeles on Wednesday (January 29), Netflix’s vice chairman of non-fiction collection and sports activities Brandon Riegg shared that conversations are ongoing with Liam Payne’s household on how his involvement can be dealt with, with extra info coming within the “close to future”, per The Hollywood Reporter’s sources.
Backstreet Boys’ AJ McLean can be anticipated to look within the collection, having informed TMZ after Payne’s loss of life that that they had simply completed filming for a TV present collectively.
Constructing The Band was first publicly introduced in August, seemingly after filming had wrapped. Within the Netflix collection, musicians will compete to kind a band based mostly solely on benefit with out ever having met each other – they’re able to rehearse collectively by way of isolation cubicles, that means they will hear one another however not see one another.
A launch date for Constructing The Band has not been introduced.
It comes following reviews that the remaining members of One Course could reunite in tribute to Payne at this yr’s BRIT Awards.
Earlier this month, a listening to at Buckinghamshire Coroner’s Court docket confirmed that Payne’s loss of life was the results of “polytrauma”, which refers to a number of traumatic accidents sustained by a physique’s organ methods.
Elsewhere, Payne’s good friend Roger Nores not too long ago filed a federal defamation lawsuit in opposition to the late star’s father for defamation. Nores is certainly one of 5 individuals who have been charged in Argentina over the loss of life alongside CasaSur Palermo resort supervisor Gilda Martin, reception head Esteban Grassi, Ezequiel Pereyra and Braian Paiz.