Oh, Screen Gems, Screen Gems, Screen Gems. You guys just can’t crank ‘em out fast enough, huh? Last year, you managed to be in the process of remaking [REC] while it was still making the festival rounds, and this year, we see the trailer for next year’s more multi-cultural remake of 2007’s Death at a Funeral. (It’s after the jump.)
Neil LaBute of Lakeview Terrace fame replaces Frank Oz to direct a cast that includes Chris Rock, Danny Glover, Martin Lawrence, Tracy Morgan, Columbus Short, and a handful of white people - including James Marsden in Alan Tudyk’s under-the-influence funeral guest role (inspired casting, I’ll admit) and Peter Dinklage in the part last played by… Peter Dinklage. Hell, even the same screenwriter is credited, because the screenplay would appear to be almost identical, save for a few more race-related remarks.
Far be it from me to judge from just two minutes, but the tone of this seems far more broad and slapsticky than its bawdy British predecessor. Oh, well, a black comedy has now become a black comedy in a completely different sense of the word.
DAAF 2.0 lands April 16, 2010.
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