Denzel Washington and Will Smith: ‘Uptown Saturday Night’ Remake!
OMG, I have been waiting for “Uptown Saturday Night” to be remade for the lonnnnngets time! I’m so excited.
I hope they do all three! “Let’s Do It It Again” AND “A Piece of the Action” needs to be remade to complete the trilogy, lol.
Denzel Washington and Will Smith are in talks to co-star in a remake of Uptown Saturday Night. The 1974 comedy was directed by Sidney Poitier and starred Poitier and Bill Cosby as two friends who meet up at a nightclub and get robbed of their wallets only to discover the next morning that one of their wallets contained a winning lottery ticket. Mark and Robb Cullen (Cop Out) are currently rewriting the script with David Dobkin (Wedding Crashers) attached to direct.
I love this chase scene from “Let’s Do It Again” LOL. I miss movies like this. (6:06 mark) is the best! And check out my homey Julius Harris (7:55 mark) bless his heart, rest his soul–I worked with him! Hilarious.
P.S. Memba the lady in the beginning of the video (the phone operator)? From “Coming to America.” She was the one that said “I’ll marry ya…” And then Eddie threw her them earrings, lol.
Ok, first of all, you were awesome as dudley on diff’rent strokes and on family matters. Second of all, I love the original uptown saturday night. Poitier, cosby, bellafonte, flip wilson, and pryor made this movie great. I will never get tired of this movie. I am happy to see that will smith is going to remake it. I know his production company bought the rights to it a few years back and smith and denzel will make this movie a hit again. But denzel has to play steve jackson and will smith has to play wardell franklin. I will be the first person at the theater to see it when it comes out.
Hey thanks.