NBC Cancels ‘Voice’ Coach Adam Levine’s Musical ‘1970’s’ with ‘Star Wars’ Hayden Christensen

NBC has some bad news for Adam Levine. The network didn’t turn the chair for the Voice coach’s purposed musical project The 1970’s. It was recently revealed that NBC was canceling its plans to air the story of the rise of independent record labels vs the big conglomerates. The musical series was supposed to star Kelsey Grammer (Cheers, Frasier) and Hayden Christensen (Star Wars Episode II and III).

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Deadline offers a description of the show that would have been, writing:

“The 1970s, which was to feature classic songs of the era performed by contemporary artists, was envisioned as telling the real story of the wars among the powerful independent music companies who were fending off the big corporations from encroaching on their turf, with the mob on their side and the FBI on the side of the congloms.”

The project was supposed to be produced by Adam Levine’s 222 production company and the Boardwalk Entertainment Group. Last year, Timothy Scott Bogart, the co-founder of the Boardwalk Entertainment Group spoke with The Hollywood Report about the project, saying:

"What not everyone realizes about the '70s is just how much the culture was informed by the corporate world's drive to control, package and profit from it,

Bogart’s partner, Boardwalk co-founder Gary Randall, also chimed in saying:

“It was the beginning of the end of the independent labels and the driving force of radio transitioning into the corporate takeover of the business and the demise of the mob influence."

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