{"id":63970,"date":"2012-09-19T23:46:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T23:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2012\/09\/19\/nzingha-stewart-to-write-the-flamingo-kid-remake\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T10:29:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T10:29:11","slug":"nzingha-stewart-to-write-the-flamingo-kid-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/nzingha-stewart-to-write-the-flamingo-kid-remake\/","title":{"rendered":"Nzingha Stewart to write The Flamingo Kid remake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nzingha Stewart to write The Flamingo Kid remake<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

September 19, 2012<\/p>\n

Source: Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n

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Walt Disney Pictures has set up a remake of the 1984 film The Flamingo Kid<\/strong>, and it will be produced by Brett Ratner<\/strong>\u2019s Rat Entertainment and Michael Phillips<\/strong>\u2019 Lighthouse Productions.<\/p>\n

Nzingha Stewart<\/strong>, who has directed videos by Jay-Z<\/strong> and 50 Cent<\/strong> and whose film credits include For Colored Girls<\/strong>, has been set to write the script. Ratner, Phillips and Juliana Maio<\/strong> will produce; Rat Entertainment\u2019s John Cheng<\/strong> is exec producer.<\/p>\n

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Directed by Garry Marshall<\/strong>, the original is one I remember fondly, with Matt Dillon<\/strong> playing a high school grad who gets a job at the Flamingo Club and finds himself mentored by the club\u2019s owner. He soon disdains his own blue collar origins for the beach club where the rich and privileged come to play, but it all comes at a high price and the kid smartens up.<\/p>\n

Heard of Ratner, but I haven\u2019t heard Phillips\u2019 name that much since he produced Taxi Driver, The Sting and Close Encounters Of The Third Kind with his late ex-wife, Julia Phillips. Well, he produced the original The Flamingo Kid. Stewart is repped by WME and manager Neda Niroumand.<\/p>\n

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