Denzel and Will to go Uptown Saturday Night

[terry78]

http://variety.com/2013/film/news/nicholas-stoller-uptown-saturday-night-warners-1200883904/

Yes, a remake of the 70s comedy with Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier. Adam McKay is directing, but Denzel in a comedy? Shut up and take my money.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Adam McKay directing a movie that isn't starring Will Ferrell?

What? That's unpossible!

 

[Blitzkrieg]

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/kevin-hart-uptown-saturday-night-remake-1202809782/

Warner Bros. and Overbrook Entertainment’s long-gestating remake of the 1974 comedy “Uptown Saturday Night” looks to be gearing up again, with Kevin Hart in negotiations to star.

Will Smith and his Overbrook Entertainment partner James Lassiter are producing with “Black-ish” creator Kenya Barris writing the most recent draft. For years, the project was developed as possible starring vehicle for Smith and Denzel Washington, but busy schedules for both A-listers have forced Smith to serve as a producer on the project, opening the door for Hart to take the lead.

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/malcolm-d-lee-uptown-saturday-night-kevin-hart-1202891544/

“Girls Trip” director Malcolm D. Lee is in early negotiations to direct Warner Bros. and Overbrook Entertainment’s remake of “Uptown Saturday Night” starring Kevin Hart, sources tell Variety.

Sources say that once Hart was attached to the project, Lee immediately looked to be in a good position to take on the remake. The two previously worked together on the upcoming Universal comedy “Night School,” which opens in September.

Lee is coming off one of the biggest hits of his career with last summer’s “Girls Trip,” which went on to gross $140 million worldwide, including $115 million domestically. Other recent credits include “Barbershop: The Next Cut” and “The Best Man Holiday.”

 

[terry78]

Meh.

 

[NotNickFury]

A lot of what worked in both Uptown Saturday Night and Let's Do It Again (haven't seen A Piece of the Action) had to do with both those films really embodying the 70s and feeling evocative of that period. Remaking them, in particular if they're set in modern times, feels...odd.

 

[Gold Samurai]

Adam McKay directing a movie that isn't starring Will Ferrell?

What? That's unpossible!

He directed "Big Short" Will Ferrell was not in that movie

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[DarkKnight88]

How about a Bill Cosby cameo?

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

How about a Bill Cosby cameo?

 

[Dr. Evil]

He directed "Big Short" Will Ferrell was not in that movie

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I said that in 2013, 2 years before The Big Short.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Rick Famuyiwa to Direct 'Uptown Saturday Night' Remake (Exclusive)

Rick Famuyiwa will direct Kevin Hart in the Warner Bros. remake of Uptown Saturday Night. Black-ish creator Kenya Barris wrote the most recent draft of the remake, and will produce.

The original 1974 buddy comedy starred Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby as two friends who visit a high-end, underworld nightclub, where they get robbed and have to go searching for a winning lottery ticket.

 

[terry78]

From Dope to Kevin Hart comedies huh? Hopefully the his co-star is someone he hasn't worked with.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Malclom Lee is directing Space Jam 2 so someone had to fill in. I guess Rick & WB buried the hatchet after the Flash solo movie fallout.

 

[Drizzle]

These things always seem to circle back to Kevin Hart.

Adam McKay directing a movie that isn't starring Will Ferrell?

What? That's unpossible!

It's as if McKay actually read this post because he hasn't directed anything with Ferrell in it since 2013. It seems to have worked out fine for him, not so much for Ferrell.

 

[Dr. Evil]

These things always seem to circle back to Kevin Hart.


It's as if McKay actually read this post because he hasn't directed anything with Ferrell in it since 2013. It seems to have worked out fine for him, not so much for Ferrell.

I made that post in 2013, if you noticed the date.

 

[Drizzle]

I made that post in 2013, if you noticed the date.

I know, that was my point. You posted it in November 2013 and the last movie McKay directed with Ferrell in it was Anchorman 2 which came out in December 2013. It was as if he read your post and thought, "Maybe I should make a movie or two without Will Ferrell".

 

[Dr. Evil]

I know, that was my point. You posted it in November 2013 and the last movie McKay directed with Ferrell in it was Anchorman 2 which came out in December 2013. It was as if he read your post and thought, "Maybe I should make a movie or two without Will Ferrell".

I didn't watch Anchorman 2. I didn't want it to ruin the greatness of Anchorman 1.

 

[Lily Adler]

I didn't watch Anchorman 2. I didn't want it to ruin the greatness of Anchorman 1.

It repeats many of the same jokes from the first one, but I do love the newer rumble scene.

 

[Lencho01]

From Dope to Kevin Hart comedies huh? Hopefully the his co-star is someone he hasn't worked with.

People gotta eat.