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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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KEYWORDS: barris; blacks; remake
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To: dynachrome

Might be worth watching if they do all the dialogue in ebonics and jive - sadly we no longer have Barbara Billingsley with us to do the translation.


81 posted on 01/21/2024 7:48:13 AM PST by Stosh
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To: ronniesgal

Luckily for me, I only watch F1 and some tennis.
All other tv is done.
It keeps my head from exploding…


82 posted on 01/21/2024 7:48:31 AM PST by EEGator
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To: dynachrome

Maximum Liberty
Let all voices be heard

They wanna use their own money to make a movie targeted at 18% of the population? Go for it.
When it flops, report that as well.

Folks will reveal themselves for what they are.
Let them.


83 posted on 01/21/2024 7:49:19 AM PST by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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To: butlerweave

I feel like I am watching TV in Capetown when the commercials come on.


84 posted on 01/21/2024 7:50:02 AM PST by xkaydet65
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To: dynachrome

Does this mean the snow will be black in the scenes where it is present? Asking for a friend.......


85 posted on 01/21/2024 7:52:09 AM PST by Nekman (The Dems are SocialistCommunistUtopianMarxists...SCUM for short...it FITS!)
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To: ealgeone
It Happened One Christmas
86 posted on 01/21/2024 7:54:23 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: dynachrome

Write your own stories.

Blacks get angry if a white person wears dreads or hoop earrings. Appropriate someone else’s culture for a change. “Modern” audiences. Humph.


87 posted on 01/21/2024 7:58:05 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: JoJo354

Movies, favorite old TV shows being redone using minorities, pi$$e$ me off!

No original ideas, just get rid of the white actors!

I can’t name them all because I refuse to watch them but to start the list ...

Magnum PI
MacGyver
The Honeymooners
The Wild Wild West

Anyone else think of some?😟

(Yes, of course the commercials make all whites the minority)


88 posted on 01/21/2024 7:58:05 AM PST by justme4now (Our Right's are God given and I don't need permission from politicians or courts to exercise them!)
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To: Fiji Hill

Already a black wizard of oz called The Wiz with Michael Jackson


89 posted on 01/21/2024 8:01:32 AM PST by Craftmore
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To: justme4now
Quantum Leap. 24. But that didn't work. You can't replace Jack Bauer in 24.

They need to make authentic shows and movies featuring Black characters. Like the Cosby Show. That was the most popular show in America during the '80s.

You can't just replace Jack Bauer or James Bond and expect it to work.

90 posted on 01/21/2024 8:05:05 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: dynachrome

As I imagine it is with many, I’m sick of having this stuff shoved down my throat ad nauseam.

I’m beginning to theorize that it is being done to deliberately foster white resentment. It’s part of the program to devolve this country into racial anarchy. While that sounds rather conspiratorial it fits to a T.

Too many involved in this stuff have a vested interest in racial hate, division, and violence.

It is most definitely not being done with the goal of fostering racial harmony.


91 posted on 01/21/2024 8:05:30 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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To: ByteMercenary

We watch roots once a year and play it backwards so it has a happy ending


92 posted on 01/21/2024 8:06:51 AM PST by al baby (I know sarcasm )
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To: MinorityRepublican

I am waiting for a documentary starring a black G Washington, and a whole cast of black founders.


93 posted on 01/21/2024 8:07:30 AM PST by going hot
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To: dynachrome

Hasn’t “The Wiz” already been done?


94 posted on 01/21/2024 8:07:51 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: PIF

You’ve ruined it! You gave away the formula with no SPOILER ALERT*** warning.


95 posted on 01/21/2024 8:09:04 AM PST by BipolarBob (My investment choice for 2024 is pre-ban menthol cigarettes. )
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To: rbg81
Throw in Will Smith(AKA James West,LOL), with Chris Rock as George Bailey...

"...mah mouth's bleeding, Bert!, mah mouth's bleeding!"

96 posted on 01/21/2024 8:11:38 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: dynachrome

The evil banker, of course, will continue to be an old white male.


97 posted on 01/21/2024 8:15:02 AM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: dynachrome

Sounds like cultural appropriation.


98 posted on 01/21/2024 8:16:52 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Socon-Econ

“evil banker, of course, will continue to be an old white male.”

And look like President Trump.


99 posted on 01/21/2024 8:17:30 AM PST by dynachrome (War does not determine who is right, but who is left.)
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To: PIF

I think it’s time for the black folks to start paying reparations to the whitey crackers....


100 posted on 01/21/2024 8:19:21 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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