March 8, 2009

Chris Rock and Neil Labute get their cast together for the remake of Death at a Funeral

Here's the article in Variety:

Screen Gems and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment have assembled their cast for the Chris Rock starrer "Death at a Funeral."
Martin Lawrence and Tracy Morgan have signed on to star opposite Rock in the Neil LaBute-directed comedy.
Story revolves around a dysfunctional family that gathers for the patriarch's funeral. When tensions rise and old conflicts are uncovered, a man arrives saying he's the dead man's gay lover and threatens blackmail.
Danny Glover, Regina Hall, James Marsden, Zoe Saldana, Columbus Short, Loretta Devine and Ron Glass round out the cast of the American remake of the 2007 British film.
Rock is also producing and co-writing the film, which was co-written by Aeysha Carr.
Lensing is skedded to begin in the spring.
Sidney Kimmel and William Horberg will also serve as producers along with Share Stallings and Laurence Malkin. Both Stallings and Malkin served as producers on the original. Jim Tauber and Dean Craig, who wrote the 2007 film’s screenplay, will exec produce.
“I knew when Chris, Jim and Bill pitched me on this remake that we would get a great filmmaker that would attract this caliber of a cast,” said Screen Gems president Clint Culpepper.
-I'm a fan of the original version, so I'm not sold on this being any good yet, but we shall see...thoughts?

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