Tyler Perry has hit a roadblock in his pursuit of movie making.


The filmmaker expressed interest in producing a film with Diana Ross, but apparently, she won’t return his calls.


“She’s been ignoring me for years,” Perry told Essence.com while promoting his latest movie, Madea’s Witness Protection. “She’s the only person that I have dreamed of working with that will not return my phone calls.”


But he does recall a time when they had a short conversation.
“That was it, she never called me again. She said, “No!” And that was it.”


He says not even having a close association with Oprah Winfrey can’t get her to call back.


“Not when it comes to Diana Ross,” he jokes. “You can be friends with Obama, Oprah, Trump — that is Diana Ross! So, no.”


Not all is lost, however. Perry has managed to get two other childhood idols, Maria Gibbs and John Amos, into his latest movie.


“To be around Florence from The Jeffersons and James [Amos] from Good Times… to stand in the presence of people that I’ve admired is amazing.”

Info about the film he want her in

Hollyscoop caught up with Perry at the ‘Good Deeds’ movie junket where we asked him who his dream costar was.

“Diana Ross,” Perry told us, without hesitation. And in fact, he revealed that he has some big plans in store.

“I have the perfect role for her,” Tyler told Hollyscoop. “And I haven’t shot that movie yet because I’m waiting for her to say yes.”

Well Halleluyer! So what’s it about? Don’t worry, Perry fills us in:

“It’s a jazz movie set in the 1940’s, and [Diana Ross] would play a jazz singer who runs a juke joint, and I just wish she would do it.”

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Smart on Diana's part. You can't get much lower artistically speaking than Tyler Perry's movies. He's one of the worst filmmakers of all time.

diana is a high class diva tyler has never been on her level and never will be and when last time u heard of diana trying 2 work with anybody ?? so who he?? if michael jackson had of lved do u think he would return miss perry calls?

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