The music of Prince is set to inspire a new film in the style of Mamma Mia.

According to Variety, Universal Pictures has picked up the rights to a number of classic songs that will form the basis of a fictional big-screen musical. The singer’s estate was reportedly in talks with a number of studios about the project.

Meetings have started with writers and producers to figure out the direction of the project. Some sources have claimed the estate deems 1984’s Purple Rain a biopic so a more original direction is required.

The news comes months after the second Mamma Mia film made almost $400m worldwide following the original’s $615m global haul. It has also been a strong year for big-screen musicals: Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born brought in over $350m and Bohemian Rhapsody became the biggest music biopic of all time with $534m to date.

Next year will also see the release of the Elton John drama Rocketman, starring Taron Egerton, and a big-screen version of Cats starring Taylor Swift, Idris Elba, Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, James Corden and Jason Derulo.

On stage, “jukebox musicals” have been on the increase. Shows based on the music of Cher, the Go-Go’s, Tina Turner, the Temptations, Jimmy Buffett and Alanis Morissette have opened this year.

Prince sold over 100m records, winning eight Grammies and an Oscar for original score. He died in 2016 at the age of 57. This year, it was also confirmed that the Selma director, Ava DuVernay, will be making a multi-part Prince documentary for Netflix with the cooperation of his estate.