Modesty Blaise was supposed to be a ‘refugee’ raised in ‘the Middle East.’ She could be Kashmiri, Afghan, or Iraqi.
I’d do it with two actresses; a fifty-something Modesty narrating her life story and a younger actress for the early years.
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UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 3 days agoThe Jinx film almost happened. There was a script, a director in Stephen Frears but apparently MGM got cold feet spending $80m on the film.
Berry said,
“It was very disappointing. It was ahead of its time. Nobody was ready to sink that kind of money into a Black female action star. They just weren’t sure of its value. That’s where we were then.”
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 days ago
CameronDev@programming.dev 3 days ago
Aww, I never heard of that, shame.