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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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To: dynachrome

Why stop there? Remake GONE WITH THE WIND with all the races reversed. That at least might be funny. “Frankly my homie, Ah done give a f**k!”


21 posted on 01/21/2024 7:00:21 AM PST by Orosius (Wake America Up Again )
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To: Tennessee Nana

It Happened One Christmas was a 1977 television movie remake of the classic film, whose screenplay Lionel Chetwynd based on both the original Van Doren Stern short story and the 1946 screenplay. This remake employed gender-reversal, with Marlo Thomas as the protagonist Mary Bailey, Wayne Rogers as George Hatch, and Cloris Leachman as the angel Clara Oddbody.[N 9] Leachman received her tenth Emmy nomination for this role. In a significant departure from his earlier roles, Orson Welles was cast as Mr. Potter.[N 10] Following initial positive reviews, the made-for-television film was rebroadcast twice in 1978 and 1979, but has not been shown since on national re-broadcasts or issued to home media.[N 11][113]


22 posted on 01/21/2024 7:01:02 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: dynachrome

I’ll say- these people are stupid and never learn. The only thing dumber than these people are the ones who financially back these money losing propositions.


23 posted on 01/21/2024 7:01:49 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: dynachrome

“because that worked out so well for “The Wonder Years” reboot.”

How many bazzillions of $$$ did the politically correct West Side Story lose?


24 posted on 01/21/2024 7:02:52 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: dynachrome

The blacks who do this don’t have an original thought in their heads. They are not creative. They plagiarize ideas from the successful work of others. They have to know that most people will not go to see these movies so why do they do this? Just to get their 10 minutes of “fame”.


25 posted on 01/21/2024 7:05:55 AM PST by JoJo354 (We are the revolution....)
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To: dynachrome

“Modern Audiences” is code for “Leftist Garbage Script.”
It is what woke execs THINK that audiences should be, but not what they really are.


26 posted on 01/21/2024 7:06:03 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: dynachrome

Leave it alone. You wanna remake something - do To Sir With Love.
Make the Sidney Poitier character a whote guy in the hood


27 posted on 01/21/2024 7:06:20 AM PST by wny
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To: ealgeone

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.

On a different note, in the ‘80s, my family attended the same church for a while as Frank Capra. He always struck me as a such a nice, humble old gentleman. I’m sure he’ll be rolling in his grave with respect to however Hollywood plans to disfigure on his classic films.


28 posted on 01/21/2024 7:07:04 AM PST by irishjuggler
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

“I’ve got this thermos.”

An actual good movie.
Lots of good movies had blacks in them.
This is just black pandering BS.

One would think our country is half black men and half white women.
So tired of the pimping of race mixing.


29 posted on 01/21/2024 7:07:12 AM PST by EEGator
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To: dynachrome
Oh I dunno, maybe in this version whitey kneels on Big George's neck, so Clare'unce shows him all de womenz who didn't get a gun shoved into her pregnant belly, or how his favorite bodega was able to stay open after Big George stopped passing them counterfeit 100s, the bad news is all the extra street fen because Big George wasn't there to take them. Then it turns out Clare'unce was a hallucination as Big George expires. Call it 'It Be A Wonderful Short Life'.

Just keepin' it real.

30 posted on 01/21/2024 7:08:47 AM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: wny

If they remade To Sir With Love in 2024, it’s be “To Non-Binary Pronoun with Love.”


31 posted on 01/21/2024 7:08:55 AM PST by irishjuggler
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To: ealgeone

A remake was done in the 70s with Marlo Thomas and Wayne Rogers. Marlo had the lead role.


I did not think that version was too bad. I actually saw it before the original. But, yeah, the original IAWL is easily one of the best movies ever made. There are lots of YouTube videos that show people’s reaction when seeing it for the first time. Spoiler alert: Nearly all of them cry like babies at the end.

Some things should never be touch and IAWL is one of them. I can only imagine what a vomit-inducing mess a Woke remake of IAWL will be. I am not surprised that a remake is forthcoming as Hollywood seems to be out of fresh ideas for everything.


32 posted on 01/21/2024 7:10:38 AM PST by rbg81
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To: dynachrome

Everyone will be black except for Mr. Potter.


33 posted on 01/21/2024 7:11:57 AM PST by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: dynachrome

At this point, hasn’t it just become movie audience abuse?


34 posted on 01/21/2024 7:12:25 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (I didn't mis-gender you, You did!)
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To: dynachrome

The target audience for this thinks life is generally miserable, so I can’t see this remake succeeding.


35 posted on 01/21/2024 7:13:11 AM PST by FreedomForce
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To: EEGator

black people make up 85% of the US population, as judged by TV commercials.


36 posted on 01/21/2024 7:13:28 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: dynachrome

What would happen if they remade “Black-ish” with a white cast?


37 posted on 01/21/2024 7:13:45 AM PST by peggybac (My will is what I wanted. God's will is what I got.)
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To: Bernard
I was wondering what the next failure was going to be. Does Bedford Heights have an MLK Boulevard?

The planned public housing project gets shut down because racist southern republicans cut spending from a Federal Grant, and protests from angry middle-aged white men from the suburbs for (fill in the blank) - that's my guess

We all know it MUST promote all the childish and stupid woke stereotypes and an immediate political agenda.

38 posted on 01/21/2024 7:15:13 AM PST by PGR88
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To: PIF

And the 15% remaining are white women married to black men.


39 posted on 01/21/2024 7:15:38 AM PST by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: ealgeone

It Happened One Christmas
https://new-gomovies.live/watch-movie/it-happened-one-christmas/EgIHLvV8/Kbw75S7J-online-free.html


40 posted on 01/21/2024 7:16:26 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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