Word on the street is the 1992 film “White Men Can’t Jump” is getting a modern facelift and Los Angeles Clippers star Blake Griffin will help produce it!
According to Variety, Griffin will join forces with “Blackish” creator Kenya Barris and Carolina Panthers’ Ryan Kalil to reboot the classic comedy. Barris will be producing and writing the script for the film.
“White Men Can’t Jump” originally followed two basketball hustlers, Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes, who came together after initially beefing with each other.
Well rapper Riff Raff took to Twitter hoping that he snags a role on the remake as Harrelson:
THEY ARE REMAKiNG "WHiTE MEN CANT JUMP" iN A PERFECT WORLD i WOULD BE PLAYiNG THE ROLE OF WOODY HARRELSON… LETS HOPE THE WORLD iS PERFECT
— ???? P!NK PYTHōN ???? (@JODYHiGHROLLER) January 18, 2017
Of course Black Twitter has something to say about it also:
Leave white men cant jump alone.. no need for a remake at all… I feel like this sht always happen whenever I rewatch classics
— ????ArekJ???? (@ArekJordan) January 18, 2017
Just found out that white men cant jump is being remade. Just a bad idea. That movie is a classic. Better not get ruined
— Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen (@coppola48) January 18, 2017
im so here for this white men cant jump remake
— Cory (@CoryAntonio) January 18, 2017
"White Men Can't Jump" would there be shouts of racism in the MSM if there was a film called black men cant swim?
— Demosthenes???? (@PoliticalBrah) January 18, 2017
Blake Griffin is making a remake of White Men Cant Jump. Kill me now please. Stop remaking classics!!! Remakes are all SHIT!
— Jerry Young (@MentallyMucked) January 18, 2017
Lets chat below, what are your thoughts on the remake?
TSR STAFF: Debra Oh
