First, let’s recap; several years ago on the 2009 BET Awards there was a sketch that featured Jamie Foxx and Martin Lawrence starring as their past characters on their infamous shows- Sheneneh from the Martin show and Wanda from In Living Color.
That sketch was so popular that there were immediate conversations to seriously fast pace this as a film and Screen Gems quickly moved in to acquire the film. At that time, Foxx was writing it and Martin wanted to produce it as they moved together through Foxx’s Foxxhole and Lawrence’s Runteldat production banners.
On a side note the thought process at that time for additional casting was to also add Tyler Perry’s infamous Madea character, but it never got that far. There were conversations with Halle Berry who verbally agreed to also star in the film, and actress Tichina Arnold agreed later on. We even discovered George Lopez had agreed to do a cameo.
So with all of that star power and almost 18 months later what happened?
Well, we just discovered that the stars of the film are still seriously trying to make it happen but the the studios interest in making this film is not as hot as it once was. So while Foxx and Lawrence is desperately trying to move forward with this project, it seems that Screen Gems has turned their immediate focus to other projects. We think that has a lot to do with Kevin Hart. (See any post on Hart’s next several projects from Think Like A Man 2 to his new stand up feature film) Will they revisit this? Maybe, but they might have better luck turning this into a television show EXACTLY like Hart is currently doing with BET for his new TV show Real Husbands Of Hollywood, which coincidentally is the following year’s hilarious sketch from the BET Awards that has now turned into a 10 episode order for the network.
One last thought; this movie may be ever closer to never happening at all than what was revealed to us by our sources because ALL of the videos related to this film have been taken down everywhere. The only videos posted are by fans.
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