Petition Launched To Cancel Aaliyah Lifetime Movie; After Disney Star, Zendaya Is Casted To Play The Late Singer

MStars News has learned that fans of the late singer, Aaliyah have launched an online petition to have an upcoming Lifetime Movie Network biopic cancelled.

Earlier this week it was announced Disney star Zendaya Coleman had been chosen to play the role of the "Rock The Boat" singer. The new televised film entitled, Aaliyah: Princess of R&B is based off of Christopher Farley's bestselling biography Aaliyah: More Than a Woman.

MStars News previously reported that Aaliyah's family wanted the Lifetime production of the new film put to an halt.

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A group of fans have now launched a campaign to put an end to the production on the Lifetime movie. 

The petition goes like this: "This petition is to stop the making of this Aaliyah biopic. It's wrong that Aaliyah's mother or brother didn't have a say so in this movie that is being made. The fans didn't get a say so and neither did any of Aaliyah's friends. As her fans, we're going to do anything in our power to stop this movie...

"They're about to make something that didn't even get approved from her family. That is beyond disrespectful... If you really respect Aaliyah, you have to respect her mother and her brothers (sic) wishes... It was Aaliyah's life. And they're taking it too far now. We need to put a stop to this!"

Shooting and production is schedule to start sometime this summer. Aaliyah died in a plane crash in 2001, on the Islands of the Bahamas at the age of 22.