Having found no salvation in the latest Terminator film, rapper/actor Common has been cast in the main male lead role in the upcoming sports-themed romantic comedy Just Wright.
Written by Michael Elliot, the film revolves around a sports trainer who finds herself falling in love with a professional basketball player while rehabilitating him from a career-threatening injury.
Queen Latifah and Paula Patton also star. It is being helmed by Sanaa Hamri who plans to begin filming next month in New York City.
Queen Latifah is set to star in the romantic comedy Just Wright for Fox Searchlight.
The project has been on quite a development journey that started six years ago at Disney but was picked up by Searchlight.
Just Wright is being called a modern-day Cinderella tale because the is about a female physical therapist who falls in love with a basketball player while helping him recover from a career-threatening injury.
“The Oprah Winfrey Show” upcoming episode premiering tomorrow, Thursday, October 2, featuring the cast from The Secret Lives of Bees, the New York Times Bestseller which is coming to the big screen this Fall.
Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys and Sophie Okonedo will sit down with Oprah to discuss the film and answer viewer questions. Alicia Keys will close out the show with her hit song “Superwoman”!
Talking to MTV News, Queen Latifah let it out that a Hairspray sequel is in the works.
"I got an e-mail from people connected to the last movie, it said: ‘Keep your ears peeled.’ I don’t know what he’s writing or what the concept is" she said.
She continues, saying that she would love to “do another one” and that it “should be lots of fun.”
The original was released last year to positive reviews and major money at the box office.
Queen Latifah has been crowned as the honorary chair of 2008 Urbanworld Film Festival set for September 10-14 in New York City. The Secret Life of Bees, which she stars, closes the festival with a Q&A with writer/director Gina Prince-Bythewood, Latifah and Sophie Okonedo.
The fest is known for centering the topics on mainstream cinema by and about people of color, will screen 85 films at the AMC Loews 34th Street Theaters.
Also gaining spotlight screenings are Gerald Barclay’s Wu: The Story of the Wu-Tang Clan and Aaron Woodley’s Tennessee.
From what I have heard about this film, it’s endearing and a must see movie about coming of age and finding happiness with an all star cast. The movie opens October 17th.
Jennifer Hudson had this to say about The Secret Life of Bees, “It’s very raw, very raw. It affected each of us in some kind of way,” says Hudson. “Like with me, I had to do research like crazy on the civil rights movement. That messed with my mind. And then I had to fight three white men because I was my own stunt double…Dakota, Queen and Tristan (Wilds) had to go to bee school and learn how to deal with bees. Alicia had to learn how to play the cello,” says Hudson. “I’ve never had to be this involved in anything in my life! I had to touch a bug. I had a fit, honey. I nearly lost my mind! It was a beetle, but luckily, it was beautiful.”
Having found no salvation in the latest Terminator film, rapper/actor Common has been cast in the main male lead role in the upcoming sports-themed romantic comedy Just Wright.
Talking to MTV News, Queen Latifah 
