Joined: Mar 27, 2002 Posts: 1163 Location: Philly Always
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2002 10:55 pm Post subject: Did yall hear .....................
.... about Murda Inc re doin Sparkle and Ashanti gettin the leading role and ofcourse Ja goin play her boyfriend. I been thought somethin was goin on wit them two cause they just be a lil to "Happy" wit each other. Anyway shes gonna be sparkle and they tryin to get beyonnce to play the crackhead sister (lol, she looks the part) and p diddy tom play Bees lover. If they do pull dat together Its goin be mad crazy, and ghetto at the same time. I dont know let me know what yall think.
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2002 12:18 am Post subject: Did yall hear .....................
No, Sparkle is a classic and if Ashanti is goin to be in the lead role than itz gonna be fucked up. But Beyonce can't play the part of the crackhead sister cuz crackheads are skinny. I don't know maybe it would be hot, but I'd probly would go to see it, I just think they should just leave that alone cuz they take other people's beats and make hits, now they takin other people's movies and trying to make it a hit. But madd props will go out to them if they do it.
Joined: Oct 29, 2002 Posts: 1081 Location: why u wanna know?
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2002 4:32 am Post subject: Did yall hear .....................
HERE IS SOMETHING I FOUND
Ja Rule And Ashanti To Star In Remakes Of 'Sparkle' And 'Grease'
Posted by Alex Tretsven on 11/20/2002
Ja Rule may have just dropped his fourth album, The Last Temptation, but the gravel-voiced Hollis, Queens, native already has plans to continue his segue from MC to Hollywood swinger.
"We just got the green light. We're remaking 'Sparkle.' Me, Ashanti ... and Irv Gotti is [making his] directorial debut in Hollywood," Rule disclosed Tuesday after his appearance on "TRL." "That's just been greenlit with Warner Bros. It's going to be a big, big event for that movie."
In the original film, Irene Cara starred in the title role, playing one of three females in an all-sibling R&B group trying to make it big. The trio's world is turned upside down when they start to gain fame and the oldest of the girls, simply known as Sister, battles with drugs.
Ashanti will reprise Cara's part as the lead character and Rule says he'll tackle the role or Sparkle's beau Stix, which was originally played by "Miami Vice" star Philip Michael Thomas. The Inc. is also hoping to cast Beyoncé Knowles as the embattled eldest sibling and P. Diddy as her estranged love interest, Levi. Joel Schumacher, one of the writers on the original flick, is slated to produce.
"Right now we're just going to finish up casting," Rule said, estimating when 'Sparkle' would spark up production. "They're going to talk budgeting and stuff like that and then it'll be a go. I say we probably won't be up in production until about next year."
A spokesperson for Warner Bros. was unable to confirm the project, declining comment until the Murder Inc. deal is finalized.
It's on a considerably smaller scale, but we'll get to see Ja and Ashanti remake another timeless movie sooner than "Sparkle." The duo, who have a playful brother/sister relationship offscreen, switch it up onscreen, acting as boyfriend and girlfriend for "Mesmerize," the second video from The Last Temptation.
"We want to take the concept real big," Ja said a few weeks ago in a New York studio, while finishing up work on the album. "It's real crazy. We wanna do the John Travolta/ Oliva Newton-John classic, 'Grease.' We wanna recreate that whole [scene] in the theme park with the cute playing around and bumper cars. We'll start out the video with the whole transition thing where she got on her slut outfit, she's smoking a cigarette and coughing and her girls are there. She's like, 'Well, if he wants me to be more street, that's what I gotta do.'
"And they cut to me and I'm in my sweater and my n---as are there, rolling the dice or whatever and they're looking at me like, 'Yo, what the f---?' " Ja continued. "I'm like 'I love her. If she wants me to be a little more [preppy], this is what I gotta do.' I see her in the slut outfit and I rip off my joint then I'm in all black and it's on and popping. It's gonna be hot."
The Inc.'s king and queen take their love song formula to the next level with a word exchange on the record.
"That's what I felt was gonna make the record really special and different," Rule explained. "I kind of flirted with it with 'I'm Real,' but I didn't take it all the way to this extent. That's really never been done quite like that in hip-hop, a real duet where I'm on the hook. On the third verse, me and Ashanti are going in and out, hip-hop style; she's singing and I'm rhyming.
" 'Mesmerize' is about your feelings towards a young lady," he added. " 'Your lips, your smile, I love it when you kiss me, baby.' It's describing everything about her that you love. Her eyes, her hips, her thighs and you're mesmerized."
Joined: Mar 27, 2002 Posts: 1163 Location: Philly Always
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2002 5:35 am Post subject: Did yall hear .....................
I still think they are messin around cause i heard on the down low a minute ago wendy said ja and his wife were sperated for a minute cause she found out he was messin wit ashanti. I didnt think it was true at first cause ja always talkin bout how he loves his family but then every video you see them all up on each other. They definitely dont act like brothers and sisters, and now shes playin his girl in the movie and the video its just to coincidental ya feel me.....
