According to the Hollywoord Reporter, Issa Rae will produce, and possibly star in, a remake of New Line Cinema’s 1996 action thriller, Set It Off. The Insecure co-creator will produce alongside her Issa Rae Productions partner Montrel McKay and enlist Black Monday‘s Syreeta Singleton and Star‘s Nina Gloster as writers on the project.
The original film starred Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox and Kimberly Elise and told the story of four friends who, after struggling with low-wage jobs, band together to start robbing banks.
Set It Off not only highlighted wage issues and solidified director F. Gary Gray‘s career, but was also fronted by four lead women in a genre that was predominantly dominated by men. The cult classic also offered a star-studded soundtrack, with contributions from Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Queen Latifah, Busta Rhymes, Goodie Mob, Organized Noize, Gladys Knight and more.
Rae has had a busy year. Her Insecure HBO series will return in 2020 for its fourth season, her and Robin Thede co-produced series, A Black Lady Sketch Show, premiered last month and she is set to star in the upcoming film The Lovebirds alongside Kumail Nanjiani.
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Please be more creative than just redoing everything that has already worked. This message is for all creatives not just Issa Rae and company
RNS indeed.
I love Issa but why PLEASE WHY can’t people leave well enough alone.
don’t do it … just leave it alone… you can’t top the original … the best you can do with this is continue the story and even with that you still need to step lightly…
This movie was not something that defines us as a whole or a specific group. It’s just yet another misguided group of hood black youths who lost everything. It’s not a great story and not a classic film in my opinion. It pushed no boundaries except to replace the men bank robbers with women. Big whoopty whoop. It’s about the trash folks in the ghetto instead of those of us that lived life to the fullest and did something special with the time we have. Those hoodrat bitches deserve no more shine
It is a fucking classic. Why do you think they are eager to remake it. Have seen all female bank robbers in a movie before that? Plus the acting was great.
NOOOO!!!! Not only that, it just continues to show the black people still have a long way to go in Hollywood…a remake of a hood story, smh….all black folks don’t live that way. We have more stories to tell than just “growing up in tha ‘hood”…