VIDEO: Check Out the New Teaser for Upcoming SUPERFLY Film
By: Macon Prickett Mar. 23, 2018
Superfly - the film that helped define a genre in its characters, look, sound, and feel - is reimagined with Director X, director of legendary music videos (Drake, Rihanna), introducing it to a new generation. The screenplay is by Alex Tse. Directed by Director X, the film stars Trevor Jackson Jason Mitchell Michael Kenneth Williams Lex Scott Davis Jennifer Morrison.
The film is a remake of the 1972 blaxploitation crime drama film directed by Gordon Parks, Jr., starring Ron O'Neal as Youngblood Priest, an African American cocaine dealer who is trying to quit the underworld drug business. The 1972 film is best known for its soundtrack, written and produced by soul musician Curtis Mayfield. Super Fly is one of the few films ever to have been outgrossed by its soundtrack.
The Superfly reboot opens theatrically this summer! Watch the trailer below!
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