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Black-ish Director Kenya Barris To Remake “It’s a Wonderful Life” For Modern Audiences
pirates&princesses ^ | 1-21-24 | Kambrea Pratt

Posted on 01/21/2024 6:49:29 AM PST by dynachrome

Nothing is sacred in Hollywood. Everything they own the rights to is just possible fodder for a remake or re-imagining. While Disney is notorious for this, Paramount is taking its swing at the title for “most unwanted reimagining” with a remake of “It’s A Wonderful Life.”

Paramount, along with “Black-ish” director Kenya Barris, plans on remaking the iconic holiday film for modern audiences by remaking the film with POC actors because that worked out so well for “The Wonder Years” reboot.

Barris mentioned this project, along with a new “Wizard of Oz” film set in Inglewood at the Sundance Film Festival. Variety reported on the comments that were made by Barris as he was taking part in the Variety Studio presented by Audible

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You can easily use the basic plot and do a new movie without it being a remake. Since this is going to flop anyways I doubt it will help get any more ticket sales


41 posted on 01/21/2024 7:16:29 AM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: PIF

And I’m the criminal or terrorist on tv.


42 posted on 01/21/2024 7:17:07 AM PST by EEGator
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To: rbg81

I have watched a lot of those reactions on YouTube. Not ONE of the black viewers said, “Gee, I wish there were a remake with an all-black cast.” Instead, the black reviewers love the film and Jimmy Stewart’s performance.


43 posted on 01/21/2024 7:17:22 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: dynachrome
Barris mentioned this project, along with a new “Wizard of Oz” film set in Inglewood...

Inglewood, Calif.--an LA suburb out by the airport? Should be interesting.

"The Wizard of Oz" was already remade, in 1939. The remake, starring Frank Morgan, Judy Garland, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley and Ray Bolger was a good movie, but not as good as the 1925 original starring Oliver Hardy (before he teamed up with Stan Laurel).

44 posted on 01/21/2024 7:19:31 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: PIF

and the other half of the country is in a bi-racial relationship headed by smart black women married to idiot white dudes.


45 posted on 01/21/2024 7:19:34 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: peggybac

Or “Black Panther” 🐆?!


46 posted on 01/21/2024 7:20:18 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Apparatchik

Rule of thumb for TV shows and commercials:

White men are beyond stupid;
White women are smart;
Black men are smarter than white women;
Black women are the smartest humans alive, except;
Black women with Afros and horned rim glasses who are super geniuses.


47 posted on 01/21/2024 7:20:39 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: irishjuggler

Pretty cool story about Capra. Always enjoyed his movies.


48 posted on 01/21/2024 7:21:12 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: EEGator

And I’m the criminal or terrorist on tv.’


Yes and we will get you and you will suffer horribly for your vile deeds!


49 posted on 01/21/2024 7:22:07 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: dynachrome

Looming: Biggest bomb in the history of filmmaking.


50 posted on 01/21/2024 7:22:16 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Fiji Hill

Barris mentioned this project, along with a new “Wizard of Oz” film set in Inglewood...

Inglewood, Calif.—


Inglewood, NJ


51 posted on 01/21/2024 7:23:11 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: EEGator
And I’m the criminal or terrorist on tv.

I knew that as you.

52 posted on 01/21/2024 7:23:38 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: PIF

White males haven’t contributed anything to society besides violent crime and hate towards our wonderful minority population.

It’s mere happenstance that Africa, Central and South America suck.
Nothing to do with the humans there, it’s the dirt.


53 posted on 01/21/2024 7:25:46 AM PST by EEGator
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To: irishjuggler
Just looked at the imdb listing for that... I’ll take your word for it that it was a stinker, but it had a hell of a cast... most notably with Orson Welles as Mr Potter.

"Casino Royale," the worst movie of all time, also had a hell of a cast including Orson Welles.

54 posted on 01/21/2024 7:28:25 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: irishjuggler

My late father-in-law painted the portrait of Welles used in that movie. He kept it in his home studio after the picture wrapped.


55 posted on 01/21/2024 7:28:29 AM PST by Orosius (Wake America Up Again )
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To: dynachrome

Looting?


56 posted on 01/21/2024 7:29:49 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: EEGator

Where can they find a black man who wants to be a father?


57 posted on 01/21/2024 7:30:21 AM PST by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: dynachrome

They need to remake the movie SHAFT with a little Chinese man.


58 posted on 01/21/2024 7:30:49 AM PST by George J. Jetso
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To: EEGator

It’s mere happenstance that Africa, Central and South America suck. it’s the dirt.


Those places suck because of evil, stupid, white, male Europeans who invaded and killed everyone, destroying the utopian dream culture of the innocent holy peoples who had overcome the vile and perverted dirt they lived on.


59 posted on 01/21/2024 7:31:02 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: BlackbirdSST

I’m starting to root for the bad guys in movies.

The seed was laid when I was supposed to root for the whiner in Back to School.
It’s just progressed since then…
William Zabka is the good guy in my opinion.


60 posted on 01/21/2024 7:31:35 AM PST by EEGator
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