( Rolling Stone ) -- `` All Is By My Side '' -- the Jimi Hendrix biopic currently being shot in Ireland , starring Outkast 's Andre Benjamin ( a.k.a . Andre 3000 ) -- will feature new recordings of Benjamin covering the Beatles , Muddy Waters and more , producers tell Rolling Stone . The film will not , however , include any songs written by Hendrix , the rights to which are controlled by the late guitarist 's estate . Last month , Experience Hendrix LLC , which oversees the Hendrix estate , issued a statement regarding the movie , which has been in production for four months . The company , which is run by Hendrix 's sister Janie , said that it `` has made it known many times in the past that no such film , were it to include original music or copyrights created by Jimi Hendrix , can be undertaken without its full participation . '' Instead , the film -- set in London in 1966 and 1967 -- will include Benjamin 's new versions of covers that Hendrix performed during those years , shortly before the release of his landmark debut , `` Are You Experienced . '' Audiences will see Benjamin singing `` Sgt . Pepper 's Lonely Hearts Club Band '' ( which Hendrix famously performed in a London club with members of the Beatles in the audience ) , `` Wild Thing , '' `` Hound Dog , '' Muddy Waters ' `` Mannish Boy '' and Elmore James ' `` Bleeding Heart , '' plus two songs , `` Future Trip '' and `` Driving South , '' that Hendrix played as a backup musician for Curtis Knight and the Squires . The remakes were cut in Los Angeles by a session-legend power trio including Waddy Wachtel ( who 's played guitar for Keith Richards , Stevie Nicks and Linda Ronstadt ) , Leland Sklar ( bassist for James Taylor , Jackson Browne and Phil Collins ) , and Kenny Aronoff ( former John Mellencamp drummer ) . Danny Bramson , a longtime music supervisor who won a Grammy for his work on the `` Almost Famous '' soundtrack , oversaw the music . `` All Is By My Side '' is currently shooting in Dublin , Ireland , where co-producer Sean McKittrick says it was `` easier ... to recreate 1967 London . '' Principal photography is expected to wrap this week , and producers then hope to take the film to Sundance in early 2013 for possible release next year . A soundtrack album featuring the Benjamin-sung covers is also in discussion . `` Andre has been Jimi for four months now , '' McKittrick says . `` He speaks and walks like Jimi . He dropped a ton of weight . The transformation has been amazing . '' If the movie were to include songs Hendrix wrote , like `` Purple Haze '' or `` The Wind Cries Mary , '' the producers would have needed permission from Experience Hendrix , which owns the copyrights to the material . But according to McKittrick , the film was always set in Hendrix ' pre-fame era , so neither he or his team ever approached the Hendrix estate . `` This is the story of Jimi being discovered as a backup musician and how he went to London and became Jimi Hendrix , '' says the producer . McKittrick says that focusing on early stories about Hendrix -- like the times he jammed with Cream and met Eric Clapton -- is preferable to a biopic about Hendrix 's full life story . `` That would be like making a movie about Kurt Cobain , '' he says . `` We all know how that story ends . '' A spokesperson for Experience Hendrix tells Rolling Stone that the company had no idea the movie would include non-Hendrix songs . `` They want to make a Jimi Hendrix movie without Jimi Hendrix music , '' says the estate representative . `` It would be like making a movie about Lincoln without being able to use the Gettysburg Address . '' Music industry sources confirm that the filmmakers are legally in the clear as long as licenses are in place for the non-Hendrix songs . `` They 're absolutely in the right as long as they got the licenses for those songs , '' says Conrad Rippy , a music business lawyer who represents the estates of Elliott Smith and Jeff Buckley . `` They do n't need to get the approval of the Hendrix estate for that . '' See the full story at RollingStone.com . Copyright © 2011 Rolling Stone .
The Jimi Hendrix biopic starring Outkast 's Andre Benjamin is currently being shot in Ireland . It will feature new recordings of Benjamin covering the Beatles , Muddy Waters and more . The film will not include any songs written by Hendrix .