With the number of new releases that Netflix has every month, it is normal that it also does not stop announcing new and disparate projects every week. If a few days ago the premiere date of the musical version of Matilda was announced, today it was the turn of a new comedy starring Jonah Hill. It is true that the actor started his career in style thanks to comic and hooligan productions of teenage stories such as Supersalidos or Paso de ti , however, far from being pigeonholed, he began to appear and chain serious productions such as Moneyball or El lobo of Wall Street . All this without abandoning his comic vision with which he will return to Netflix from the hand of the creator of Black-ish .
Kenya Barris is the creator of the hit series about integrating a black family into a predominantly white middle-class neighborhood. Black-ish has garnered several Emmy nominations over the years, reflecting from a comedic and familiar point of view the differences, inequalities, and prejudices that African-Americans continue to experience in the United States. This new project with Jonah hill would mean the leap from writing to directing a feature film, since apart from Black-ish he has written for films like Shaft or The King of Zamunda , all of them with a racial backdrop. That is why with the project in its infancy and the main plot unknown, it is speculated that this new story is a revision of the 1967 film, Guess who’s coming tonight . In it, the daughter of a white couple, played by Katherine Hepburn, surprised her parents by taking a black fiancé (Sidney Poitier) to dinner.
Will this story be a revisit to what Ashton Kutcher and Berniemac did in 2005 in Guess Who? This time being a white man who surprises a black family by offering, without a doubt, a better version of Kutcher’s lazy comedy. This is Netflix’s second collaboration with Jonah Hill, as the actor comes from co-starring with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence Don’t Look Up . Jonah Hill also signs the script for this latest project with Kenya Barris.
