No more Roots please.

I will not be watching this.

A remake of Roots?! Can't be done; I won't be watching.

Ummm...I don't think so.

I gagged when I heard about the remake a while back...I double-GAGGED when I read that LaVar Burton is an executive Producer....They did not even come close to casting the ICONS that were cast in the original mini-series...A&E/Lifetime network did not have the GUTS to cast Regina King, Alfre Woodard, Idris Elba, David Oyelowo, Jeffrey Wright and the list goes on...There are Powerhouse Actors out there but A&E did not know what they were thinking when they chose to produce the project...

Urgh!!!! What is the problem in Hollywood? Have they ceased hiring quality writers anymore or are there no more left with originality? Why is it that they have to keep REMAKING every successful project, whether from TV or film, from the past???? STOP IT!!!!!!

As good as the original "Roots" is, it's still hard to watch. Whose idea was it to think it would be great to remake this? I'm not tuning in. Nope, not doing it.

missfee said:

Urgh!!!! What is the problem in Hollywood? Have they ceased hiring quality writers anymore or are there no more left with originality? Why is it that they have to keep REMAKING every successful project, whether from TV or film, from the past???? STOP IT!!!!!!

As good as the original "Roots" is, it's still hard to watch. Whose idea was it to think it would be great to remake this? I'm not tuning in. Nope, not doing it.

I wish they would stop already. It's just like music, tv, etc. Assembly line style content because all they want to do is replicate a known successful formula. I think it's mainly a few independents taking chances on original ideas these days.

This project is ill conceived.

Saw it already, it was great in the 70's so you know it will suck now

purplethunder3121 said:

A remake of Roots?! Can't be done; I won't be watching.

Anybody who saw the original could tell you this shouldn't be done.

The geniius of the original was not only the brilliance of the black actors in the cast who became household names, but the casting of the white characters. Sandy Duncan. Robert Reed. Chuck Connors. Carolyn Jones. Lorne Greene. Lloyd Bridges. These were All-American, Main Street celebrities who agreed to put their squeaky-clean images aside to portray villains in the story.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers? Fitting perhaps.

Lammastide said:

Jonathan Rhys Meyers? Fitting perhaps.

I saw him in the Mega Flop-Epic "The Mortal Instruments"..He was convincing as the Villain...I could see him playing an Evil Plantation Master..

Chancellor said:

Lammastide said:

Jonathan Rhys Meyers? Fitting perhaps.

I saw him in the Mega Flop-Epic "The Mortal Instruments"..He was convincing as the Villain...I could see him playing an Evil Plantation Master..

I was being a bit more fecetious than that, given at least one unflattering incident he found himself in at an airport a few years back.

In fairness to his acting chops, I've not seen much of his work. From all I hear, though, yeah -- he'd be as decent as anyone, I suppose.

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luv4u said:

purplethunder3121 said:

A remake of Roots?! Can't be done; I won't be watching.

I concur!

Lammastide said:

Chancellor said:

I saw him in the Mega Flop-Epic "The Mortal Instruments"..He was convincing as the Villain...I could see him playing an Evil Plantation Master..

I was being a bit more fecetious than that, given at least one unflattering incident he found himself in at an airport a few years back.

In fairness to his acting chops, I've not seen much of his work. From all I hear, though, yeah -- he'd be as decent as anyone, I suppose.

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You must tell me what he's done. I know he's supposed to have a substance abuse problem, but I need to know if he has people issues.