They Are Making A GOOD TIMES Movie

[Jello Biafra]

Sony Pictures, Scott Rudin Plot Feature Film Adaptation Of '70s TV Series 'Good Times' - Deadline.com

Sony Pictures and producer Scott Rudin will turn the groundbreaking ’70s sitcom Good Times into a feature film. They’ve set a writer, Phil Johnston, whose most recent credits include Wreck-It Ralph and Cedar Rapids. Rudin will produce the family comedy with Eli Bush.

While Rudin is selective about the remakes with which he becomes involved – Manchurian Candidate, Shaft and Sabrina – I think this has a lot of potential. The series, which aired on CBS from 1974-79, was one in a series of socially aware Norman Lear-generated sitcoms that pushed the envelope by mixing comedy with topicality and hot-button issues. Others included All In The Family (bigot patriarch), One Day At A Time (struggling single mother) and Maude.

Good Times focused on working-class couple James and Florida Evans as they raised three kids while struggling with hard financial times, unemployment and keeping their kids away from temptations that came with living in a Chicago housing project. The movie will be set in the 1960s, which gives Johnston a rich and politically charged period to mine.

William Bannister, Michael Daniels and Neville Mouguel will be associate producers and Eric Monte, Tammie Evans and Carlena Harris will be executive producers.

Not sure how I feel about a white dude being the writer for this (even though WRECK IT RALPH and CEDAR RAPIDS are both good movies), hopefully Sony hires a couple funny black writers to come in and help with the script.

Well at least it isn't being done by Tyler Perry.

 

[DaveyDave]

at least they aren't trying to make it set in the present

 

[Sunalmighty]

Da deal with that Last Dragon remake