Posted on 07/23/2015 2:36:12 PM PDT by BBell
New Orleans-area filming on a "Roots" remake, slated to air on three A&E networks in 2016, is expected to begin in mid-August. An open call for background actors was issued Tuesday (July 21) by Caballero Casting. The project, to be simulcast on History, A&E and Lifetime, was announced in April.
The four-night, eight-hour project will film here through December. Filming will also take place in Africa, an A&E spokesman said Wednesday.
Laurence Fishburne will portray Alex Haley in the "Roots" remake, based on Haley's novel "Roots: The Saga of an American Family" as well as new historical scholarship, according to A&E's initial announcement of the project.
The original 12-hour 1977 miniseries, starring LeVar Burton as the slave Kunta Kinte, was a cultural landmark and ratings powerhouse. Burton is a co-executive producer of the new project.
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I think I will try to be cast as an extra in this one.
Would they be open to a white guy in Levar Burton’s role?
Yet it’s OK to have a black guy as Bond and the left sees no hypocrisy...
They have a part for Rachel Dolezal?
I am so there.
Al Sharpton will be Punta Punta and Obama one line in entire series will be PRESENT
I actually liked “Roots,” but, LeVarr Burton didn’t play “Toby.” It was John Amos. Toby was Kunta Kinta’s American name. LeVarr played Chicken George.
Just in time for 2016.I wonder who’ll be playing The Gentle Giant.
Are you going to be one of those mean overseers?
Will there be a transgendered hero, whether white or black, master or servant?
Way back when Roots did not stir up racial animosity.
I bet the remake will and will be trying to.
think they'll go for it ?
but jenner's a hero ... right ?
The rented first daughters
will be available...
Burton did play the young Kunta Kinte/Toby Waller. Ben Vereen played Chicken George.
I thought these black people wanted everything that represents or reminds anyone of the Confederate South gone from history. I think that should include all movies depicting that time also. No Selma, no 12 Years a slave, no Roots. After all we really can’t be reminded of our own history anymore now can we? Only if it depicts whites in a bad light. Such hypocrites. Passing down racism.
Maybe that white woman in Seattle, Rachel Dolezal, the one who was in charge of the NAACP up there, will get a role....
Zoinks, you got ahead of me by 32 seconds.
In the interests of diversity I want Kunta Kinte to be played by Margaret Cho.
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LOL! You beat me to it....
Will the have the guts to cut out all the parts that Alex Haley just invented?
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