New Jack City Sequel In The Works!!!!!!!

by **J The Kidd** Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:13 pm

It was announced on website BeyondHollywood.com last week that 1991
film New Jack City would be further franchised with a sequel. Although
the film and its vivid characters remain a conversation piece,
specifically within Hip Hop, the film sequel will not include cast
members Chris Rock, Ice-T, Wesley Snipes, or director Mario Van Peebles.

Franchise creator and New Jack City screenwriter Barry Michael Cooper
spoke to us today. Of the announcement, Cooper exclusively told us, "I
know Warner Brothers is not only in the business of making movies, they
are in the business of making money. So on that level, I understand why
they want to make a sequel of New Jack City as fast and as
cost-efficient as possible. But New Jack City is a franchise, and a
movement and a template. If there was no New Jack City, there would be
no Nino-swagger available for Sean Carter, Sean Combs, Dwayne Carter,
and Clifford Harris to study and become Jigga, Diddy, Lil Wayne, and
T.I. There would be no Paid In Full, and there would be no The Wire. So
for Warner to do a direct-to-DVD New Jack City without Wes Snipes, Al
Payne, Ice-T, Chris Rock, Mario Van Peebles, and myself, is almost like
doing the Godfather II with the cast of '70s sitcom Barney Miller. It's
a stinker. But it is what it is. I just had to speak on it. And my
novella "The Diary Of Nino Brown" is my umbrella against the wack juice
that sequel is going to be spraying."