Are You Ready for the Sparkle REMAKE
 

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Ja Rule may have just dropped his fourth album, The Last Temptation, but the gravel-voiced Hollis, Queens, native already has plans to continue his segue from MC to Hollywood swinger.

"We just got the green light. We're remaking 'Sparkle.' Me, Ashanti ... and Irv Gotti is [making his] directorial debut in Hollywood," Rule disclosed Tuesday after his appearance on "TRL." "That's just been greenlit with Warner Bros. It's going to be a big, big event for that movie."

In the original film, Irene Cara starred in the title role, playing one of three females in an all-sibling R&B group trying to make it big. The trio's world is turned upside down when they start to gain fame and the oldest of the girls, simply known as Sister, battles with drugs.

Ashanti will reprise Cara's part as the lead character and Rule says he'll tackle the role or Sparkle's beau Stix, which was originally played by "Miami Vice" star Philip Michael Thomas. The Inc. is also hoping to cast Beyoncé Knowles as the embattled eldest sibling and P. Diddy as her estranged love interest, Levi. Joel Schumacher, one of the writers on the original flick, is slated to produce.

"Right now we're just going to finish up casting," Rule said, estimating when 'Sparkle' would spark up production. "They're going to talk budgeting and stuff like that and then it'll be a go. I say we probably won't be up in production until about next year."

A spokesperson for Warner Bros. was unable to confirm the project, declining comment until the Murder Inc. deal is finalized.

It's on a considerably smaller scale, but we'll get to see Ja and Ashanti remake another timeless movie sooner than "Sparkle." The duo, who have a playful brother/sister relationship offscreen, switch it up onscreen, acting as boyfriend and girlfriend for "Mesmerize," the second video from The Last Temptation.

"We want to take the concept real big," Ja said a few weeks ago in a New York studio, while finishing up work on the album. "It's real crazy. We wanna do the John Travolta/ Oliva Newton-John classic, 'Grease.' We wanna recreate that whole [scene] in the theme park with the cute playing around and bumper cars. We'll start out the video with the whole transition thing — where she got on her slut outfit, she's smoking a cigarette and coughing and her girls are there. She's like, 'Well, if he wants me to be more street, that's what I gotta do.'

"And they cut to me and I'm in my sweater and my n---as are there, rolling the dice or whatever and they're looking at me like, 'Yo, what the f---?' " Ja continued. "I'm like 'I love her. If she wants me to be a little more [preppy], this is what I gotta do.' I see her in the slut outfit and I rip off my joint then I'm in all black and it's on and popping. It's gonna be hot."

The Inc.'s king and queen take their love song formula to the next level with a word exchange on the record.

"That's what I felt was gonna make the record really special and different," Rule explained. "I kind of flirted with it with 'I'm Real,' but I didn't take it all the way to this extent. That's really never been done quite like that in hip-hop, a real duet where I'm on the hook. On the third verse, me and Ashanti are going in and out, hip-hop style; she's singing and I'm rhyming.

" 'Mesmerize' is about your feelings towards a young lady," he added. " 'Your lips, your smile, I love it when you kiss me, baby.' It's describing everything about her that you love. Her eyes, her hips, her thighs — and you're mesmerized."

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Re: Are You Ready for the Sparkle REMAKE
 

WHY CAN'T THEY COME UP WITH THEIR OWN IDEAS?!?!

Now that the whole mafia obsession is over they turn to musicals.
Please.
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

i heard that Aaliyah wanted to do this part "sparkle" before she passed away.:(

Re: Are You Ready for the Sparkle REMAKE
 

I second that.
WHY!!! Leave well enough alone :mad:

BOO
 

It's one of my favorites. I even found it on DVD. I don't want a REMAKE. It'll be like all the other poor remakes, like hip hop Carmen

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Another Black classic ruined. First Carmen, now this. And wasn't Carmen a big hot mess?? This is going to be a bigger, hotter mess!!!

Say It Ain't So!
 

No way! Can you picture Rule and Ashanti in the studio singing "Look Into Your Heart?" LOL!

Maybe it's me.....
 

But just because you go platinum does not mean you need to venture into acting as well. Is that the new criteria for singers these days??!! Ashanti can't even convince me of her acting skills in a video (i.e. "It's Murda, fa sho!! :rolleyes: ) much less a movie!! And don't let me start on Ja Rule..... :mad:

I do not want to see a Sparkle remake with Ashanti and Ja Rule. I enjoyed the orginial movie. Rather than stealing from the past. It would be better if they just start from where the movie left off. I always wonder if Sparkle and her middle sister ever got back together. Besides, I don't think Beyonce Knowles is willing to play Ashanti older sister.

Re: Maybe it's me.....
 

OK...I thought I was the only one who cringed at that part. She sounds so fake and phony.

According to E. Lynn Harris on his book tour LAST year (July 2001), he said that a deal had been made where she would star in the film. Less than one month later...

As far as JA and 'nem....NNNNNOOOOOOTTTTTT!

WWWWHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?????? Who in the hell told Ja and the rest of them fools that they can act????? It's just wrong, plain and simple. :mad: :mad:

Murder Inc
 

They really are the biggest bunch of no talent hacks EVER! and folx just eat it UP! They have no original ideas!

hold on sec
 

I thought that the original idea came from Whitney houston to do the remake, and is was to star aaliyah, but the filming couldn't get underway because aaliyah was filming other movies.


Who ever it was that said ja rule nem have no originality was CORRRRRRECT, If I'm not mistaken, almost every single one of their songs, have a sample from SOMEBODY'S LP in their. can we say get your own BEAT. I'm sick of sampling.
I said this before and I'll say it again,
It's called murder inc, because, they be cuttin' up the songs, now it's going to be the big screen.

Sparkle Remake
 

Hey ya'll, I am new to GC, but I have been stopping by and reading the posts for a while now. I had heard about the remake of this movie a long time ago, but this is the first time that I had heard about Ja Rule and Ashanti:rolleyes: I don't think that will do ANYTHING for either one of their careers (and their 15 minutes of fame were over a LONG time ago). When I first heard about the remake I heard that the starts would be Will Smith and Alicia Keys, and I thought that that would have been interesting to see, but now I don't even think that I would download that for free to watch. Anyway that is all that I have to say about that.

P.S. I am glad to finally be apart of GC, and look forward to talking with you all in the future.:D