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The movie superfly7/26/2023 ![]() “I wasn’t immediately on board,” he said. In “SuperFly” (the remake opted for a one-word title), a man descended into even more danger and corruption. In “Super Fly,” Ron O’Neal played Youngblood Priest, a drug dealer who wanted one final, lucrative score that would allow him to abandon a life of crime. Even though Director X hadn’t seen the predecessor, he knew something was amiss. (Born Julien Lutz, the Trinidadian-Swiss 42-year-old christened himself “Little X” as a teenage hip-hop fan in Toronto, and graduated to a more mature moniker in his 30s). “They put the name ‘ SuperFly’ back on the King Lear script and gave that to me,” he said. Read More: ‘SuperFly’ Review: Director X Delivers a Fun, Swaggering, Violent Update of a Blaxploitation Classic Sony picked up the rights in late 2017, but sent the old script to Director X. From that bizarre pronouncement, the unnamed studio commissioned a new script based on a Shakespearean tragedy. ![]()
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