Day 11 of Black Movie Month!! Today's spotlight is special because not only are we featuring the film The Best Man but it is official there will be a SEQUEL!!!
And to top it off our dreams have come true folks, after some speculations began when the cast the cast met up for a reunion a few months ago, director Malcolm Lee has decided to make it a reality.
Universal Pictures has officially signed on to be the studio home of Best Man 2! Deadline Hollywood reports reports the original director, Malcolm Lee, will return to the helm. And he's working on locking down the original YBF cast featuring Taye Diggs, Sanaa Lathan, Monica Moore, Nia Long, Terrence Howard, Morris Chestnut, and plenty more:
Universal has set Malcolm D. Lee to write, direct and produce Best Man 2, a sequel to the 1999 film. Lee wrote and directed the original, a comedy in which a writer (Taye Diggs) is preparing to be the best man for his football player buddy (Morris Chestnut), but the timing is bad because the writer’s autobiographical novel is about to pop and it describes how the best man bedded the bride. Terrence Howard, Harold Perrineau, Nia Long and Sanaa Lathan also starred. The original grossed $35 million. Lee’s plan is to ask the original cast to reprise; in fact, I’m told the whole idea came out of a reunion dinner he held with most of the cast members, and they sparked to the idea of a re-team and so did the studio.
I am usually not a fan of certain sequels happening, but this is definitely the exception to the rule! Check out the trailer for The Best Man and look back on the memory of a classic black film!!
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