ROOTS Getting a Remake

[georgescorewell]

One of the biggest TV events of all time is being reimagined for new audiences.

"Roots," the epic miniseries about an African-American slave and his descendants, had a staggering audience of over 100 million viewers back in 1977. Now A&E networks are remaking the miniseries, to air in 2016.

A&E, Lifetime and History (formerly the History Channel) announced Thursday that the three networks would simulcast a remake of the saga of Kunta Kinte, an African who was captured, shipped to America and sold into slavery to work on a Virginia plantation.

LeVar Burton, who portrayed Kinte in the original, will co-executive produce the new miniseries.

A press release describes the new version as "original" and "contemporary" and will draw more from Alex Haley's classic novel, "Roots: The Saga of an American Family." Producers will consult scholars in African and African-American history for added authenticity.

"We are proud to bring this saga to fans of the original, as well as to a new generation that will experience this powerful and poignant tale for the first time," said Dirk Hoogstra, History's executive vice president and general manager.
"Audiences will once again feel the impact of Kunta Kinte's indomitable spirit."

Executive producer Mark Wolper, son of the original's producer David L. Wolper, added, "Kunta Kinte began telling his story over 200 years ago and that story went through his family lineage, to Alex Haley, to my father, and now the mantle rests with me. Like Kunta Kinte fought to tell his story over and over again, so must we."

The remade "Roots" will encounter a new generation of viewers who have witnessed Barack Obama make history as the nation's first African-American president and "12 Years a Slave" win the Oscar for Best Picture, but also widespread racial unrest over police treatment of black suspects in many U.S. cities.

"My career began with 'Roots' and I am proud to be a part of this new adaptation," said Burton. "There is a huge audience of contemporary young Americans who do not know the story of 'Roots' or its importance."

 

 

[penny1folarin]

as long as lifetime or wendy williams has nothing to do with it im ok with it 

 

[T Lo Sweater]

as long as lifetime or wendy williams has nothing to do with it im ok with it 

 

[dman14]

just re-air the original

 

[yeah]

as long as lifetime or wendy williams has nothing to do with it im ok with it 

+ Tyler Perry

 

[victor page]

Right on schedule

 

[definition of dopeness]

Hollywood loves reminding us we were slaves. Another year another slave movie.

 

[dipsetgeneral]

This is a good move for the new generation. Can't show the 1980's version to kids born in the 2000's. In my opinion.

 

[htg designs]

Hope they dont get somebody like Ben Afflek as Kunta. Fiddler, maybe...

 

[akajae]

Kendrick as King Kunta

 

[georgescorewell]

Kendrick as King Kunta

 

[flyny]

Hopefully Kevin Hart can get a role in this.

 

[SoleByThePound]

 
The notion of Kevin Hart being a slave

, dude is shorter than most cotton plants.

That's cold blooded.

 

[flyny]

The notion of Kevin Hart being a slave , dude is shorter than most cotton plants.

Who said he'd be in th le field? He'd probably be in the house

 

[IATT]

Can't wait to see how they improve the special effects

 

[gwap]

Hollywood loves reminding us we were slaves. Another year another slave movie.

yep, just like jews getting tired of being shown as helpless victims in WW2..... oh wait...

 

[georgescorewell]

yep, just like jews getting tired of being shown as helpless victims in WW2..... oh wait...

Movies dealing with slavery come down the pike frequently.

Since Inglorious Bastards I don't know of another movie released covering the Ashkenazi Jew experience in WWII.

 

[gwap]

 

yep, just like jews getting tired of being shown as helpless victims in WW2..... oh wait...

Movies dealing with slavery come down the pike frequently.

Since Inglorious Bastards I don't know of another movie released covering the Ashkenazi Jew experience in WWII.

Inglorious bastards was released in 2009.... so lets start with that year.

2009 The Diary of Anne Frank  

2009 Berlin '36  

2009	France	La rafle	Rose Bosch	Based on the true story of a young Jewish boy
2009	France	L'armée du crime	Robert Guédiguian	English title: The Army of Crime

2009

USA  Poland  Canada

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

John Kent Harrison

TV movie

2010	USA  Poland	Esther's Diary	Mariusz Kotowski	Features original footage from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
2010	France	Sarah's Key	Gilles Paquet-Brenner	An adaptation of the novel Elle s'appelait Sarah  by Tatiana De Rosnay
2010	France	The Round Up	Rose Bosch	The Vel' d'Hiv Roundup.
2010	China	A Jewish Girl in Shanghai	Wang Genfa, Zhang Zhenhui	Animated. Life of a Jewish girl with her little brother in Shanghai, and her parents in Europe.
2011	Poland	In Darkness	Agnieszka Holland	Based on a true story.
2012	Republic of Macedonia	The Third Half	Darko Mitrevski
2012	Serbia	When Day Breaks	Goran Paskaljević
2013	Switzerland	Akte Grüninger	Alain Gsponer	Based on the true story of Paul Grüninger.
2013	Czech Republic  Slovakia	Colette	Milan Cieslar	An adaptation of the novel A girl from Antwerp  by Arnošt Lustig
2013	Poland	Ida	Paweł Pawlikowski	the 2014 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

2010	Israel/  Germany	A Film Unfinished	Yael Hersonski
2011	Germany	Auschwitz	Uwe Boll
2011	Turkey	Turkish Passport	Burak Arlıel	A documentary about the Jews who were rescued by Turkish diplomats through having been given Turkish diplomatic passports.
2012	USA	Bearing Witness: The Voices of Our Survivors	Heather Elliott-Famularo	http://www.bearingwitnesstoledo.com
2012	USA	Misa's Fugue	Sean Gaston	www.misasfugue.com
2012	USA	No Place on Earth	Janet Tobias	Documentary about a group of Jews who lived in caves in Ukraine  for nearly 18 months to escape the Holocaust.
2012	USA	REFUGE: Stories of the Selfhelp Home	Ethan Bensinger	Documentary about the last generation of Holocaust Survivors and Refugees at Chicago's Selfhelp Home
2012	USA	The Resort	Galina Kalashnikova	www.codeoflifeproductions.com
2012	USA	Hiding Halina	Jeff MacIntyre	9 out of 10 Jewish children perished during the Holocaust. Those who survived were hidden. “Hiding Halina” is a documentary about a little girl who beat the odds.
2013	Italy	The longest journey	Ruggero Gabbai	A documentary about the last days of the Jews  of Rhodes.
2013	France	Last of the Unjust	Claude Lanzmann	http://www.le-pacte.com/international/upcoming-films/single/the-last-of-the-unjust/
2014	USA	Berlin Calling	Nigel ****	http://www.berlincallingdocumentary.com A punk fan from Los Angeles traces her father's journey back to the concentration camp in Theresienstadt  where he spent two years of his life.
2014	Israel/  Czech Republic/  Slovakia/  USA	Gisi	Natasha Dudinski	The story of Gisi Fleischmann, a woman who believed she can stop the Holocaust if only she succeeded to raise enough money.

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if you really want me to prove my point...maybe I should show the complete list of jewish holocaust movies since the 50's....

 

[georgescorewell]

In terms of marketing it's still different.

We're talking about an epic miniseries that released in the late 70s that's about to come back revised, and I don't know of many epic miniseries that end up with a reboot.

Not just including Slave films, but you have to be mindful of films like The Help, The Butler, and others released in the past decade that show African Americans in subservient roles.

So not only do you have those type of films, but you have the subservient pictures, and then the stereotypical characters constantly flooding the movie screen and TV networks.

So the pictures you highlighted are from one particular era, whereas blacks have to contend with the antebellum period, all the way up to the modern day with a tinkering of characters which aren't far removed from the Tom, Buck, Mammy characters mostly originating from blackface caricatures.

 

[gwap]

In terms of marketing it's still different.

We're talking about an epic miniseries that released in the late 70s that's about to come back revised, and I don't know of many epic miniseries that end up with a reboot.

Not just including Slave films, but you have to be mindful of films like The Help, The Butler, and others released in the past decade that show African Americans in subservient roles.

So not only do you have those type of films, but you have the subservient pictures, and then the stereotypical characters constantly flooding the movie screen and TV networks.

So the pictures you highlighted are from one particular era, whereas blacks have to contend with the antebellum period, all the way up to the modern day with a tinkering of characters which aren't far removed from the Tom, Buck, Mammy characters mostly originating from blackface caricatures.

They show blacks in subservient roles....because that's what blacks went through in the era of those history Pieces. that's like Jews complaining about all the WW2 movies showing them being killed and unable to prevent the Holocaust.

 

[georgescorewell]

They show blacks in subservient roles....because that's what blacks went through in the era of those history Pieces. that's like Jews complaining about all the WW2 movies showing them being killed and unable to prevent the Holocaust.

That's not all blacks went through. There were actually free people of color during that time period who did more than be subservient to an overseer.

This is the problem I have with the portrayals of blacks during that era. It's usually told from from one particular angle.

 

[gwap]

In terms of marketing it's still different.


We're talking about an epic miniseries that released in the late 70s that's about to come back revised, and I don't know of many epic miniseries that end up with a reboot.


Not just including Slave films, but you have to be mindful of films like The Help, The Butler, and others released in the past decade that show African Americans in subservient roles.


So not only do you have those type of films, but you have the subservient pictures, and then the stereotypical characters constantly flooding the movie screen and TV networks.


So the pictures you highlighted are from one particular era, whereas blacks have to contend with the antebellum period, all the way up to the modern day with a tinkering of characters which aren't far removed from the Tom, Buck, Mammy characters mostly originating from blackface caricatures.

They show blacks in subservient roles....because that's what blacks went through in the era of those history Pieces. that's like Jews complaining about all the WW2 movies showing them being killed and unable to prevent the Holocaust.

They show blacks in subservient roles....because that's what blacks went through in the era of those history Pieces. that's like Jews complaining about all the WW2 movies showing them being killed and unable to prevent the Holocaust.

That's not all blacks went through. There were actually free people of color during that time period who did more than be subservient to an overseer.

This is the problem I have with the portrayals of blacks during that era. It's usually told from from one particular angle.

That like Jews complaining about Holocaust era movies not showing enough stories about Jews who were affluent and politically connected enough to not be affected by it. Lol.

 

[georgescorewell]

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[yeah]

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[gwap]

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i just know you posted some dumb **** without actually thinking about it....

Showing the history and struggle of what we went through is not an attack on blacks.... 

You would probably prefer the movie industry be more like japan, and act like they never did anything wrong and everything has been honkey dorey since the 1800's