Official "Dolemite Is My Name" Thread
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I love all the Rudy Ray Moore movies ...bring it on....I'm a huge fan of the blaxploitation movies and if the were to remake one ....I'd love to see "Black Ceaser" and its sequel "Hell up in Harlem" remade with a big budget but sticking all the way to the original movies... shyt would be crazy today
Classic incoming
After the success of Black Panther, and Get Out, do we REALLY need to reboot a Blaxploitation flick
2 steps forward, 3 steps back.
It's a biopic not a reeboot
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Keegan-Michael Key Joins Eddie Murphy in 'Dolemite Is My Name!' (Exclusive)
11:24 AM PDT 6/28/2018 by Borys Kit
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Wesley Snipes, Mike Epps, Craig Robinson and Tituss Burgess are set for the Netflix feature.
Keegan-Michael Key has nabbed a key role opposite Eddie Murphy in Dolemite Is My Name!, Netflix's biopic of pioneering comedian and blaxploitation film producer Rudy Ray Moore.
The movie is already shooting in Los Angeles with Wesley Snipes, Mike Epps, Craig Robinson, Tituss Burgess, Da'Vine Joy Randolph and T.I. on the call sheet. Craig Brewer is directing.
Moore has been referred to by some as the Godfather of Rap for his reciting of raunchy, sexually explicit rhymes in his comedy, often depicting pimps, prostitutes, players and hustlers, according to his obituary in the Los Angeles Times. (He died in 2008.) The son of a sharecropper, he broke through in 1970s Hollywood when his underground records became popular in black communities.
Moore used the proceeds to produce and star in Dolemite, a notorious blaxploitation movie featuring a pimp with a harem of kung fu-fighting prostitutes. The film was an underground sensation.
Key will play Jerry Jones, a playwright who is convinced by Moore to write the screenplay for Dolemite.
Davis Entertainment's John Davis and John Fox are producing Dolemite Is My Name! along with Murphy. Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski wrote the script.
The movie will drop in 2019.
Key, who starred with Jordan Peele in the duo's Comedy Central breakout, Key and Peele, next appears in Fox's The Predator, the sci-fi action reboot from Shane Black, and returns for season 2 of Netflix's Friends From College. He is also voicing a part in Disney's CGI remake of The Lion King.
Key is repped by UTA and Bloom Hergott.
playing Dolemite co-writer Jerry Jones
It's a biopic not a reeboot
Biopic? I could see a Black Dynamite kinda parody, or a straight up reboot....but biopic?
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