#BOOMERANG BET TV#
The name is familiar enough to attract attention in the crowded Peak TV marketplace, but the original is not so sacred that Waithe couldn’t make significant changes in perspective and tone, even as the show is designed to be a second-generation sequel to the movie.
#BOOMERANG BET SERIES#
That puts Boomerang in the sweet spot for TV’s current obsession with remakes, revivals and reboots, as it arrives on BET tomorrow night in series form - a half-hour dramedy executive produced by Berry and Lena Waithe ( Master of None, The Chi). But it was one of the few where he got to move through a predominantly black world rather than be an outcast in a mostly white one, and it made a star out of Halle Berry (whose character - spoiler alert - eventually lands the elusive Marcus, though not before several humiliations at his hands). The film isn’t one of the best of that period for Murphy. In it, Murphy plays Marcus Graham, a commitment-phobic ad executive with impossibly high standards for his conquests (he rejects one gorgeous woman because her feet have bunions), who falls into a love triangle with the similarly ruthless Jacqueline (Robin Givens) and the sweet Angela (Halle Berry).
#BOOMERANG BET MOVIE#
Judging by the audience reaction after the screening, Waithe and her team accomplished just that.The 1992 romantic comedy Boomerang was the last big hit of Eddie Murphy’s remarkable 10-year run as one of the world’s biggest movie stars. “I cherish it too much to let it be in the wrong hands, hands that won’t handle it with care,” said Waithe. In fact, BET has a big presence at Sundance the cast of the forthcoming American Soul was on hand for screenings of the series that takes an insider look at Soul Train. Now, Waithe is a regular presence at Sundance - and debuting her project in Utah is a major deal.
Waithe first came to the festival three years ago as a producer on Justin Simien’s 2014 Dear White People. Just a few years ago, this was inconceivable at Sundance, which has evolved into a space that features and supports content that caters, in large part, to black audiences. Waithe said they might have another screening later in the festival because of the high demand. The event was so popular that there was a line down busy Main Street. The classic is an authentically black film, a culturally defining moment that helped make stars out of Halle Berry, Chris Rock (who had a bit role as a mailroom clerk) and others. “But also pay … homage and honor what the classic was.” “It’s impossible to redo classics, so why try to redo a classic? Let’s do something fresh and interesting,” said Jones.
Guests included Jada Pinkett Smith and Jaden Smith, and viewers were treated to hot toddies and appetizers while a DJ spun classic ’90s rhythm and blues and hip-hop. “It’s impossible to redo classics, so why try to redo a classic? Let’s do something fresh and interesting.”Īt Sundance, Waithe and her team screened the first two episodes to a packed and swanky lounge space off of Main Street. We just wanted to bring it … make it relevant … focusing on how these millennials really get down.” So we gave these characters children ’cause we’re all the children of Marcus Graham, all the children of Angela Lewis, of Jacqueline. “Look, we can’t recreate the movie,” Waithe said in an interview with The Undefeated. What might a world might look like if characters Marcus and Angela had a daughter? And character Jacqueline Broyer had a son? Both of whom followed in their parents’ advertising executive footsteps? We’re about to find out. So, as executive producer, she pulled together a team including Ben Cory Jones and director Dime Davis to join her on this adventure. She wanted to make sure it was done right. When BET and Paramount said they wanted to pull 1992’s Boomerang out of the vault and create a series from a film that made cultural hay back then by challenging the successful Marcus Graham’s (Eddie Murphy) womanizing ways, Lena Waithe enthusiastically raised her hand.
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