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[TheatreDiva90016]

All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works #100

Posted: 6/9/12 at 9:59am

And I like to suck cock.

Go figure.

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[henrikegerman]

All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works #101

Posted: 6/9/12 at 6:43pm

Love AC's idea of Jill Scott as Truvy.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works #102

Posted: 6/9/12 at 6:51pm

Jill Scott is playing Truvy.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works #103

Posted: 6/10/12 at 12:06am

Condola Rashad was F*CKing brilliant in the original production of RUINED, for which she won a Theatre World Award, and she was recently nominated for a Tony for STICK FLY. I think she has a great career ahead of her regardless of who her mother is or not.
I'm with PRS, the cast of this looks brilliant all the way, I haven't even seen the original movie or read the play, but I'll definitely be watching this version just based on the cast, and will probably end up finally checking out the feature version.

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

[Playbilly]

All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works #104

Posted: 6/10/12 at 12:10am

They're using the screenplay as the guide as opposed to the play, but I'm not sure who's playing the Tom Skerritt character.

"Through The Sacrifice You Made, We Can't Believe The Price You Paid..For Love!"

[Jordan Catalano]

All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works #105

Posted: 7/3/12 at 1:05pm

Doesn't look half bad. However, I still don't see the point in remaking this and Queen Latifah looks like she'll give us two hours of enough emotional overacting to last me the rest of my life.
First Trailer For The Film

[Rumpelstiltskin]

All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works #106

Posted: 7/3/12 at 1:33pm

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger." Queen quoteth Kelly.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works #107

Posted: 7/3/12 at 2:09pm

I want to see it even more now.

[TheatreDiva90016]

All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works #108

Posted: 7/3/12 at 3:34pm

They had to stick a Beyonce' reference in there?

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works #109

Posted: 7/3/12 at 3:39pm

I think it was in Alfre Woodard's contract.

[Roscoe]

All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works #110

Posted: 7/3/12 at 4:34pm

Alfre Woodard's participation means I'll at least give this a look, but I'll DVR it and FF to her scenes.

It looks like a Tyler Perry movie, frankly. I'm surprised Perry didn't option STEEL MAGNOLIAS and cast Madea as Ouiser.

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

[somethingwicked]

All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works #111

Posted: 7/3/12 at 5:52pm

How can it look like a Tyler Perry movie, Roscoe? Because it's an all black cast? Most of the lines in the trailer are the iconic ones straight out of the original, so to say something so narrow minded is completely off base.

I, for one, think it looks great. We'll see when we're given the finished product.

Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.

Updated On: 7/3/12 at 05:52 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works #112

Posted: 7/3/12 at 9:01pm

[Jordan Catalano]

All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works #113

Posted: 7/3/12 at 9:29pm

I fvcking love you, Phyllis Rogers Stone.

[E.Davis]

All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works #113

Posted: 7/3/12 at 9:29pm

Why is it a problem to have a Beyonce reference? It takes place in present day.

Also I love that Woodard's design is similar the Maclaine's.

"I think lying to children is really important, it sets them off on the right track" -Sherie Rene Scott-

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works #115

Posted: 7/3/12 at 9:36pm

If it's verbatim then people would complain about that.

And thank you, Mr. Catalano.

Updated On: 7/4/12 at 09:36 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works #116

Posted: 7/3/12 at 9:42pm

When I was a kid I could do a spot on impression of Miss Millicent Torkelson. I almost started to cry when I met Connie Ray after NEXT FALL.

[Wynbish]

All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works #117

Posted: 7/3/12 at 10:49pm

^Remember when Dorothy Jane was in Romeo and Juliet with Riley? Where it was set in the old west?

[Jordan Catalano]

All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works #118

Posted: 7/3/12 at 10:57pm

I asked Connie if the show was ever coming to DVD and she said they're talking about it so I'm really hoping I can relive them all soon!

[jimmycurry01]

All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works #119

Posted: 7/4/12 at 6:12pm

This definitely does NOT look like a Tyler Perry movie.

[degrassifan]

All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works #120

Posted: 7/4/12 at 7:02pm

"How can it look like a Tyler Perry movie, Roscoe? Because it's an all black cast? Most of the lines in the trailer are the iconic ones straight out of the original, so to say something so narrow minded is completely off base."

Agreed. Like, wtf? What does a Tyler Perry movie look like anyway?

By the way, I don't see it as a remake. I see it as a new adaptation of the stage play.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works #121

Posted: 7/4/12 at 7:21pm

Updated On: 7/4/12 at 07:21 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works #122

Posted: 7/4/12 at 8:36pm

This will turn an entire new generation of young boys into screaming queens.

[nasty_khakis]

All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works #123

Posted: 7/4/12 at 11:22pm

You mean it will turn an entire generation of boys into the down low?

[Roscoe]

All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works #124

Posted: 7/5/12 at 11:34am

Sorry to offend, folks. But it looks like a Tyler Perry movie to me -- full of heavy emotional glycerine-tear pyrotechnics, hand on hip sassy one-liner one-upmanship and heavy female bonding, and it all looks very slick and over-produced and overworked. Of course, the original is pretty well like that, too, but it at least had the saving grace of Sally Field's really visceral performance that managed to transcend the soapsuds, and I'm not thinking that Queen Latifah is quite at Fields' level as an actress. If it was the great Alfre Woodard in the role, that'd be another story, but she's playing Ouiser.

And of course, it is just a trailer. I may be wrong -- it may be a towering work of sheer dramatic genius.

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

Updated On: 7/5/12 at 11:34 AM