‘Roots’ Is Getting Rebooted with Laurence Fishburne as Alex Haley

[KingsOfKings]

Roots, the award-winning 1970s TV miniseries about one family’s resilience in the face of American slavery, is getting remade for a younger generation.

The A+E Networks production will star Black-ish executive producer and costar Laurence Fishburne, Deadline reports. Fishburne will play Alex Haley, the author of the 1976 novel Roots: The Saga Of An American Family, on which the series was based.

Fishburne’s fellow actors have yet to be announced, but the series features some other big names in the writing department, among them Lawrence Konner (Boardwalk Empire), Mark Rosenthal (Mona Lisa Smile), Alison McDonald (Alpha House) and Charles Murray (Sons of Anarchy).

The new Roots is being billed as a “contemporary production, incorporating more material from Haley’s novel, as well as carefully researched new scholarship of the time.” It is set to air on the A&E, History and Lifetime channels in 2016.

The original series, which aired in 1977, was a record-breaker for its time, attracting an unprecedented number of viewers during its finale. It also earned 37 Emmy nominations, taking home nine, and won Golden Globe and Peabody awards as well.

http://radio.com/2015/07/01/roots-tv-series-reboot-laurence-fishburne-alex-haley/




here we go again

 

[TheSpook]

Get this shyt outta here. Can we get something before slavery? fukk you morpheus

 

[Uncle_Ruckus]

More hollywood slave shyt.

 

[OfTheCross]

More hollywood slave shyt.

Never forget, breh.

 

[Uncle_Ruckus]

Never forget, breh.

Thats what white people want. We aint slaves no more. fukk I wanna keep seeing cacs make money off it over and over.

 

[satam55]

Never watched "Roots".

 

[OfTheCross]

Thats what white people want. We aint slaves no more. fukk I wanna keep seeing cacs make money off it over and over.

But at the same time I've seen ppl complain about white ppl telling Blacks to 'get over' slavery.

I rather everyone be constantly reminded.

 

[NSSVO]

fukk man i hate this shyt

 

[Numero Deux]

Why not make a movie about the old Ghana or Mali empires? Perchance a biopic for Mansa Musa?

No? No audience for that sort of thing? Yeah, I thought not. Let just have another slavery flick, because slavery and civil rights is the only worthwhile history blacks have ever had, apparently.

Tell blacks to get over/move on from/forget slavery and discrimination while continually making black centered films that focus exclusively on slavery and discrimination. Yeah, that makes sense.

 

[Joe Sixpack]

Are you kiddin me right now

Jesus Christ they won't stop until every movie ever made is remade

 

[NobodyReally]

Thats what white people want. We aint slaves no more. fukk I wanna keep seeing cacs make money off it over and over.

You can count the number of slave movies on ONE hand. How many holocaust movies and WWII movies about white soldiers are there? Why the hell does everyone want to ignore what happened to us?

 

[BXKingPin82]

im glad people in here said it before me
shyt is tired right now
seriously
keep reminding muthafukkas "HEY yall were slaves!!!"

 

[EarlyMaridia]

You can count the number of slave movies on ONE hand. How many holocaust movies and WWII movies about white soldiers are there? Why the hell does everyone want to ignore what happened to us?

I really am drawing a blank when it comes to slave movies. lol. I mean, maybe the argument would be better when it comes to civil rights movies or something. Even then, they are diverse and focus on a lot of different events.

The timing for this announcement couldn't be more perfect. Way to many "post racial" people with the camera on them, hand waving shyt away.

 

[NobodyReally]

I really am drawing a blank when it comes to slave movies. lol. I mean, maybe the argument would be better when it comes to civil rights movies or something. Even then, they are diverse and focus on a lot of different events.

The timing for this announcement couldn't be more perfect. Way to many "post racial" people with the camera on them, hand waving shyt away.

There's like 7 that involve black protagonists, only three of those were mainstream box office draws. lol

Roots (which isn't even a film, it's a tv mini-series)
Sankofa (and hardly anyone has seen this)
Glory
Amistad
Beloved
12 Years A Slave
& Django, I guess.

 

[stepbackj34spud]

Another fukking slavery movie GTFOH