According to Variety, Paramount has decided to unload Coming 2 America—its sequel to the classic Eddie Murphy movie with almost the exact same name—onto Amazon Studios, which is reportedly paying “roughly $125 million” for the rights. Paramount had apparently been shopping the movie around lately in light of the theater industry’s ongoing COVID troubles, and Variety says the studio met with various streamers and considered selling it off to CBS All Access Paramount+ before settling on Amazon. There are some special deals that have to be “hammered out” before this is all finalized, like “two complex consumer marketing tie-ins” with McDonalds and Crown Royal, and Murphy has to “give his blessing” before this can happen, but Amazon supposedly wants to get this streaming on December 18. Assuming that happens, keep an eye out for some complex consumer marketing for fast food and whiskey around that time.
Coming 2 America—which really sounds like one of those joke titles we’d suggest, like Now You Don’t for Now You See Me 2 or Now You 3 Me for Now You See Me 3—picks up several years after the events of the original movie, with Eddie Murphy’s Prince Akeem set to finally become the ruler of Zamunda. Before that, though, he has to be introduced to a son he never met (Jermaine Fowler), who happens to be living in Queens, necessitating another trip to America. The movie will also star Arsenio Hall, Leslie Jones, Shari Headley, Tracy Morgan, Wesley Snipes, and James Earl Jones. It was directed by Dolemite Is My Name’s Craig Brewer, from a script co-written by Kenya Barris.
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Is there actually any glass in those frames?
So is the premise that Akeem was busy having one night stands with random women before and/or during his courtship of Lisa?Because that’s gross and seems totally out of character for Akeem.
I mean, the twist has to be that the kid is actually Semmi’s, right?
Well, he is the real prince.
maybe it was before he went to america.
i look forward to the retcon!
Sure, go ahead and decide what the movie is based on a one-sentence logline, good call.
And it’s not like the title is Cumming 2 America!
I can’t quite remember the movie, but isn’t there the implication that Akeem basically has a harem before he runs off to Queens? (and of course there’s the “your royal penis is clean”)So I don’t know if having an assortment of sexual partners would be that out of hand for him.
Pretty sure he confirms to Jones that he too sleeps with his bathers.
This is what happens when Prince Akeem travels without the royal wipers.
I’m assuming the mother is one of the women from the dating montage. Please please please let it be Arsenio-in-a-dress, or failing that, holds-her-hand-over-a-lighter-never-breaking-eye-contact woman.
I feel like “Backing Slowly Away From America And Coming To Just About Anywhere Else” would be a bigger hit these days.
Coming 2 America, Taking 1 Look At This Shithole, Returning 2 Zamunda Immediately.
‘Not Being Allowed In 2 America’.
Coming 2 America coming to Amazon Studios….And that’s when the big bucks start rolling in!
Man I hope Louis Anderson gets a cameo.
He’s gotta have made assistant manager by now!
I want to see him as a big-shot fast food tycoon.
Just checked imdb, he is indeed listed in the credits…No credit for Sam Jackson though.
They need to have Sam just shuffling down the street, looking up and seens Akeem, and quickly crossing to the other side.
‘two complex consumer marketing tie-ins” with McDonalds and Crown Royal,’Don’t see a lot of movies with McDonald’s Happy Meal toys that come in purple velvet bags.
RIP McDowell’s“Home of the Big Mick”
Ah, memories. I used to live in the tall building in the upper right corner of that image. In real life, it was a Wendy’s, but they razed it in 2013.
Maybe McDowell’s head comes in the 1.75 liter-sized bag.
I prefer McDowell’s.
definitely better than Booger King
So… it sounds like he “Came in America…”YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
What DaFuq is Eriq Lasalle’s name? Don’t make me fuq you up!Also, please let this not be James Earl Jones’ last role. That would be depressing on par with Raul Julia in Street Fighter.Also, that royal penis better still get cleaned
Heck, I’ll watch it. Given its slim competition, it might even end up being one of the better new movies of 2020.
Louie Anderson totally owned the first one.
He probably has some real money coming in from his assistant manager position at McDowells, so why would he bother?
Some people call him Maurice, yeah.
She was really hot on Baywatch but totally let herself go on Baskets.
Haha what if you were attracted to a fat person haha what if you were attracted to people you weren’t attracted to haha
“Coming 2 America—which really sounds like one of those joke titles we’d suggest, like Now You Don’t for Now You See Me 2…”
Joke title?? Failing to call that movie Now You Don’t was one of the biggest missed opportunities in film titling. It’s like having a film called Shave And A Haircut and not calling the sequel Two Bits
For anyone curious, this is what Shari Headley looks like after aging 30+ years.
holy crap!
She may have continued living for 30+ years, but that picture suggests she wasn’t doing any ageing.
Yeah, I should have put quotes around that word.
I’m hoping Samuel L. Jackson makes an appearance as an ex-con with a grudge against Akeem…Or as a reformed ex-con who credits Akeem with saving his life and now works at McDowell’s.
It seems to me that Paramount is underestimating the spinoff and licensing possibilities of a franchise like Coming to America. In addition movie sequels and spinoff movies, there could be a tv series, a stage show and an animated children’s show. I’m not saying that any of these extensions would be any good, but they could be lucrative. And while all of these ideas would be helped by Murphy’s involvement, Prince Akeem and his universe are so well defined that it is not an absolute necessity. If it was a Disney property, they would have created a Zamunda-land at Disney World already and it would include Queens and a McDowell’s themed memorabilia store.And yes, its awful, but making money by stripmining these franchises is what studios care about the most.
I don’t understand why movies are even still in production there is not going to be a domestic theater industry and eventually Prime and Netflix are going to stop paying stupid money.
That title is just confusing. They could at least have gone with ‘2 Coming 2 America’.
I don’t know how James Earl Jones keeps going. I know I’m jinxing him, but he will live forever. Dude is 89. Been in everything, like literally everything. I kinda want to take his hand and be like, You’ve done enough. Not that it’s time to give it a rest, but it’s ok to slow down.
Well, he has to do something with those residual checks:
Not ascending the throne until he’s nearly retirement age? Prince Charles sighs and nods.
Can’t believe you left out Coming 2:Electric Boogaloo