Chris Rock Adapting British Comedy

Chris Rock Adapting British Comedy

United Press International

Nov 10, 2008

LOS ANGELES -- Comedian Chris Rock is part of a Hollywood effort to adapt the British movie "Death at a Funeral" for U.S. audiences, an industry official says.

Screen Gems President Clint Culpepper said his company, a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment, is working with Rock to an adaptation of the 2007 film, The Hollywood Reporter said Friday.

Culpepper said the project also is being supported by Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, whose founder, Sydney Kimmel, will serve as a producer on the U.S. version.

"We've been trying to work with Chris Rock and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment for some time now," Culpepper said. "It's exciting to us that this film provides the opportunity to work with both."

SKE producer Jim Tauber told the Reporter Rock was one of the main supporters of doing a revamped version of the movie, which follows the trials and tribulations of a troubled family at a funeral.

"Chris, who was an unabashed fan of the film, came to us with a hysterical, completely new re-imagining of the original concept," Tauber said.

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"Chris, who was an unabashed fan of the film, came to us with a hysterical, completely new re-imagining of the original concept," Tauber said.

So they are going to do that movie, but then they are going to completely re image the original concept.

Isn't that basicly a new and different film?

He's pretty much saying "I love this movie, but instead we're doing my movie."

The swine!!














I didn't read it.

It's going to suck big time. I hate Chris Rock so much.

Here's my impression of Chris Rock:

"!!!LAUGH AT MY JOKE! LAUGH AT MY JOKE!"