When Hollywood screenwriter and Delaware native Zach Baylin inherited an existing script for the new “Bob Marley: One Love” biopic, he noticed something was missing: The First State.
As a Tatnall School student, he had fallen in love with Marley’s music, soon learning that the music icon had lived in Wilmington off and on for years starting in the mid 1960s.
When it came time for Baylin to begin working on a re-write for the Paramount Pictures movie with film director Reinaldo Marcus Green (“King Richard”), he made sure their research included a visit to Marley’s former home at 23rd and Tatnall streets in Wilmington.
And even though the majority of the new biopic focuses on a time in Marley’s life when he was living back home in Jamaica, Baylin included several scenes that were set in Delaware.
One made the cut.
“I don’t want to give away any spoilers, but there is a scene that takes place in Delaware. When Bob fled Jamaica, essentially in exile after being shot, [his wife] Rita took the children and was in Delaware with them while he was in London,” Baylin says in a recent interview with Delaware Online/The News Journal.