Michael K. Williams Set To Co-Star In ‘Superfly’ Remake

[CEITEDMOFO]

EXCLUSIVE: The Wire alum Michael K. Williams has signed on to play Scatter in the Director X-helmed Superfly redo from Sony, which will bow in theaters June 15. Esai Morales has also come onboard to play Adalberto. The Alex Tse-penned script is based on the 1972 original blaxploitation crime drama, which followed African American cocaine dealer who tries to secure one more deal before getting out of the business.

Williams and Morales joins Trevor Jackson, Jason Mitchell, Lex Scott Davis, Andrea Londo, Jacob Ming-Trent, Omar Chapparo, and Allen Maldonado.

Joel Silver is producing with rap star Future, who is also putting together the film’s soundtrack. Exec producers are Steven R. Shore, Matthew Hirsch, Hal Sadoff, and Aaron Auch.

Williams received back-to-back Emmy noms for his role in the HBO TV movies Bessie, and the premium cabler’s miniseries, The Night Of, respectively. He currently stars in the SundanceTV series, Hap & Leonard, which will return with its third season March 7, and co-stars in Emilio Estevez’s film, The Public, which will open the Santa Barbara Film Festival on January 31. Williams is repped by Silver Lining Entertainment and WME.

Morales, who currently stars on ABC’s How To Get Away With Murder, is repped by Innovative and LINK.



Michael K. Williams, Esai Morales Set To Co-Star In ‘Superfly’ Remake

 

[Neuromancer]

whose doing the sound track?

 

[CEITEDMOFO]

whose doing the sound track?

i heard something about Future dont know how true it is though.

 

[Ol’Otis]

whose doing the sound track?

Future



Yeah I love Mike (no homo)

But naw

 

[Neuromancer]

Future



Yeah I love Mike (no homo)

But naw

Please be joking.

 

[Neuromancer]

i heard something about Future dont know how true it is though.

I'm out.

 

[CEITEDMOFO]

I'm out.

 

[Ol’Otis]

Please be joking.

Naw it's for real

It's a thread on here somewhere about it

 

[Neuromancer]

Superbly had an iconic soundtrack. I want songs I can follow. Not mumbling, grumbling, fumbling.

 

[Ol’Otis]

Not mumbling, grumbling, fumbling.

Bars

 

[KalKal]

EXCLUSIVE: The Wire alum Michael K. Williams has signed on to play Scatter in the Director X-helmed Superfly redo from Sony, which will bow in theaters June 15. Esai Morales has also come onboard to play Adalberto. The Alex Tse-penned script is based on the 1972 original blaxploitation crime drama, which followed African American cocaine dealer who tries to secure one more deal before getting out of the business.

Williams and Morales joins Trevor Jackson, Jason Mitchell, Lex Scott Davis, Andrea Londo, Jacob Ming-Trent, Omar Chapparo, and Allen Maldonado.

Joel Silver is producing with rap star Future, who is also putting together the film’s soundtrack. Exec producers are Steven R. Shore, Matthew Hirsch, Hal Sadoff, and Aaron Auch.

Williams received back-to-back Emmy noms for his role in the HBO TV movies Bessie, and the premium cabler’s miniseries, The Night Of, respectively. He currently stars in the SundanceTV series, Hap & Leonard, which will return with its third season March 7, and co-stars in Emilio Estevez’s film, The Public, which will open the Santa Barbara Film Festival on January 31. Williams is repped by Silver Lining Entertainment and WME.

Morales, who currently stars on ABC’s How To Get Away With Murder, is repped by Innovative and LINK.



Michael K. Williams, Esai Morales Set To Co-Star In ‘Superfly’ Remake

If it's set in the 70's it's redundant. You can't replace the original.

If it's set today, I don't see how it would work at all.

 

[jay211]

I wonder what year they are setting this in? It can't work present day. It needs to be a period movie, in the 70 or 80's.

 

[George's Dilemma]

Why reboot this

 

[KravenMorehead™]

Dream soundtrack: Apollo Brown, No I.D. and Roy Ayers, w/ a little bit of RZA and Adrian Younge cause them two nikkas got the tendency to go overboard

 

[David_TheMan]

SMH damn shame blacks would even want to be associated with this bullshyt, in this day and age.