But then we remembered Snipes’ turns in Major League and White Men Can’t Jump and felt better about the casting choice. We were kind of leery about whether Snipes still had the ability to take on such a high-profile performance, especially considering how his last six films were Direct-to-DVD, by-the-books action movies filmed in Europe while he was in exile from the U.S. A determined cop (Ice-T) discovers the only way to infiltrate Ninos gang is to become a dealer himself. Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison in April 2008 after he was convicted of federal income tax evasion, so while the actor remains free while awaiting an appeal, Lee will need to rush in order to get this film made with Snipes in the lead role. Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) is making a million dollars a week selling crack.
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Gary Owen, Faizon Love Raigan Harris and Collen Camp are also featured in the film. Despite years of campaigning to return to the role, former Blade actor Wesley Snipes gave the new movie his blessing, citing Ali as 'a beautiful and talented artist whose expressions I look. Smoove, Tiffany Haddish, Spence Moore II, Bill Bellamy and more, has been released. Snipes chatted with Extra’s Billy Bush and Rachel Lindsay. The first trailer for Back on the Strip, starring Wesley Snipes, J.B. I’m a purist.” (And we all know what happened when Phoenix’s taste of playing a rocker led to a new career in the music industry.) Wesley Snipes hit the red carpet at the 2022 Oscars, where he dished on his upcoming movie Back on the Strip with Kevin Hart. “I know Joaquin Phoenix in Walk the Line, he did some of the singing. That’s just my personal taste,” the Do The Right Thing director said.
Like the Ray Charles biopic Ray, the Brown film will feature the singer’s voice dubbed over Snipes’ pipes when the songs kick in. “We’re doing it together, it’s going to happen,” Lee told MTV News at the Sundance Film Festival the director first announced his intentions the day after Brown’s death.
Director Spike Lee has reiterated his desire to make a James Brown biopic, with Wesley Snipes handling the role of the Godfather of Soul.
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