Chances are you skipped
Frank Oz’s dark British comedy Death at a Funeral when it hit the States last year, but
Chris Rock didn’t.
And the actor/comedian/overall multihyphenate is banking on your change of heart for the “urban” version he’s working on, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Rock will produce, co-write and star in a reworking of Death at a Funeral, which will feature mostly black actors.
The neo-Death will reportedly center on a funeral that spirals into a series of familial mishaps, including the usual misplaced cadavers, indecent exposure and revealed secrets.
And if the ingredients sound similar to those of a
Tyler Perry melodramedy, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise: Perry’s urban movies have been consistent hits while Rock’s big-screen brainchildren have misfired to a degree -- the most recent proof being 2007’s
I Think I Love My Wife.
http://www.hollywood.com/news/Chris_Rock_Sees_Comedy_in_Death/5347818
