Reboots are definitely making a comeback this year! Misha Green has been tappedto write and produce a reboot of a popular 1970s film. That is, of course, the 1973 blaxploitation, female empowerment film Cleopatra Jones. Green, who is the co-creator, executive producer, and writer of the WGN series Underground along executive producing Lovecraft with Jordan Peele and JJ Abrams, has been enlisted by Warner Brosto recreate this spectacular film into a series!
The original film starred Tamara Dobson as Cleopatra Jones, an undercover agent and master martial artist, posing as a supermodel. According to Deadline, Green will write and produce the film “that will present the heroine very much as the female answer to James Bond.”
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The news of this reprisal comes in as the news of a Shaft Reboot starring Samuel Jackson also made headlines.It looks like our parents have new shows to look forward to watching in the upcoming new year!