Fresh off her Academy Award Best Costume Design win for Black Panther, Ruth E. Carter‘s next project will be dressing Eddie Murphy back as Prince Akeem in Coming to America 2.
She recently posted a photo with Murphy on her Instagram account, starting “GOOD MORNING MY NEIGHBORS! It’s official! Preliminary fitting for Coming to America 2 with Prince Akeem, Semmi and Oscar.”
Craig Brewer is set to direct Coming To America 2, finally bringing to the starting gate the sequel to the 1988 blockbuster comedy. Eddie Murphy will be reprising his role as Akeem, the pampered African prince who became bored of potential marriage partners in the kingdom too in awe of him, and who traveled to Queens to go undercover and find a woman with a strong will that he could respect. Brewer just directed Murphy in Dolemite Is My Name, and the star was eager to work with him again.
Kenya Barris is rewriting a script by original Coming to America writers Barry Blaustein and David Sheffield. Murphy is producing with Kevin Misher and Barris is exec producer.
In the sequel, Akeem learns about a long lost son, and must return to America to meet his unlikely heir to the throne of Zamunda. The intention is to bring back the original cast which includes Arsenio Hall, who played the prince’s aide Semmi, Shari Headley, who was courted by the prince when he went undercover as a fast food worker, John Amos, who played her father, and James Earl Jones, who played the king.
Released on June 29, 1988, by Paramount Pictures, Coming to America was a commercial box-office success, both domestically and worldwide. The film made $128,152,301 in the United States and a worldwide total of $288,752,301.It was the highest earning film that year for the studio and the third-highest-grossing film at the United States box office, according to wikipedia.
Having done 12 of Spike Lee’s films including School Daze, Do The Right Thing, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X, and Chi-Raq, Carter other film credits includes The Five Heartbeats, Baby Boy, Four Brothers, Butler, Selma & Marshall to name a few. Prior to Oscar win this year, Carter hadreceived an Emmy nomination for her wardrobe work on History Channel’s remake of Roots and garnered two Academy Award nominations for Best Costume Design for her work on Lee’s Malcolm X (1992), and Amistad (1997) directed by Steven Spielberg.
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