Will Smith and Denzel Washington’s ‘Uptown Saturday Night’ remake gets new writerby Wilson Morales
November 26, 2013
Source: Variety
Long rumored but never getting off the ground, the long-delayed project of teaming Will Smith and Denzel Washington in the remake of the 1974 Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier buddy comedy, ‘Uptown Saturday Night,’ has just got a boost in its case to be made.
Variety reports that Warner Bros. has hired Forgetting Sarah Marshall and The Five-Year Engagement director Nicholas Stoller to do a rewrite on the script. Adam McKay (Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues) is still on board to direct.
Overbrook partners Will Smith, James Lassiter, Ken Stovitz and Jada Pinkett Smith will produce the remake, which has been in development since 2002 and was originally scripted by Mark and Robb Cullen (‘Cop Out’). David Dobkin (‘Wedding Crashers’) was initially attached to direct and exec produce the film, stated Variety.
The site also states that McKay wants to follow Anchorman 2 with this film and is waiting to see if both actors will approve of the new script. If so, he would like to start shooting around next summer once the stars have cleared their schedules.
The story centers on two estranged friends who have their wallets stolen at a nightclub. The next morning, they learn that one of their wallets contained a winning lottery ticket, and together, they set out to find it.
Poitier and Cosby would pair up for two more films afterwards with “Let’s Do It Again” and “A Piece of the Action.”
