Bob Marley: One Love Biopic Starring Kingsley Ben-Adir & Lashana Lynch (Discussion Thread)

[IronFist]

ill check it out.

 

[MajesticLion]

if you ain't born and raised in yard you ain't fully jamaican.

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my nikka raheem sterling is jamaican

 

[King Static X]

It doesn't look bad. I might check it out.

Kingsley Ben-Adir, who plays Bob in this movie, also played Malcolm X in One Night in Miami. He was excellent as Malcolm in that movie.

His accent is a bit off, but that's to be expected; he's not Jamaican. It wasn't bad, though, especially compared to a lot of other Hollywood "Jamaican" accents.

 

[RARI_Godwind]

If the family is cool with it

Rita, Ziggy, and Cedella are producers.

Well then let’s get it then

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

nikka look like the dude from the Superfly remake!
Don't look shyt like Bob.


Movie def will be a Lifetime Movie style trash!

 

[JamesJabdi]

The prequel to shottas

 

[King Sun]

I don't know the way cacs look at Bob and how they consume his music most of the revolutionary shyt he stood for will be brushed aside to make cacs happy.

 

[jwinfield]

Bob’s youngest son is 44 and isn’t an actor, I’m fine with him not getting to audition to play his father in his early to mid 30s

 

[Low End Derrick]

Can’t wait for this one.

A lot of black British actors are in this one: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lashana Lynch & my darg Tosin Cole.

Kingsley is half-Trini & Lashana is Jamaican - so it’s calm.

Oh is it?

 

[Pegasus Jackson]

My Jamaican mother and my west Indian brethren from yard are going to savage this movie. I can see it.

 

[Pool_Shark]

He directed King Richard.


The writers are three white guys though. Take of that what you will (It doesn’t scream encouraging to me personally)

Been meaning to watch king Richard

 

[UncleTomFord15]

Bumboclaat

 

[UncleTomFord15]

Never been.

However, I doubt they go hard as old South London esp. Brixton before gentrification & Handsworth. Most of the generation 40 & over can switch effortlessly from English to patois.

Not sure but I believe Bob Marley lived somewhere in London & Handsworth. And his career took off in the UK.

Regardless, stop the discrimination. As long you have ancestry in a place - that’s your heritage.

Jamaicans stay with that "if you nuh born a yaad, you a nuh real Jamaican" shyt then get mad when Jamaican diasporans don't rep or claim jamaica like that .

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

Like with 2pac should’ve been a TV mini series ala Jackson’s American Dream

That or needs to be like Spike did with Malcom X where its a 3 hr film.

Truth be told, the actor is really good but looks more like the 60s version of Bob Marley than the one they are trying to depict.

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

He directed King Richard.


The writers are three white guys though. Take of that what you will (It doesn’t scream encouraging to me personally)

First thought is they should have got Shaka King, Judas and the Black Messiah, to give it that more gritty look.