Tater's Palace

a carefree ass black ass movie with Letitia Wright and Lakeith Stanfield playing siblings

seeing as y’all responded well to the last one with a slight plot and casting….lemme keep it up.

30-something year old successful tv producer [insert name] has it all but when she gets a mysterious invitation to her biological mother’s funeral, she learns more than she bargained for and finds out that she was born in to a line of powerful Voodoo priestesses. Brushing it all off as crazy information she heard from confused and distraught family members of her late biological mother….she resumes her routine, that is…until her new powers start to manifest themselves in unexpected ways.

will she manage to balance the modern world and the spiritual one? is the reason she was given up for adoption in the first place due to her mother trying to protect her from evil forces that have always been at odds with the priestesses’?

A FANTASY ROMANTIC COMEDY STARRING

Christine Adams as the lead

with Diahann Carroll playing her late biological mother/the last Voodoo priestess 

Voodoo/Vodun, any variation of the spiritual practice is more often that not discredited and written off as something wicked and evil for simply being a faith based in African tradition, I think there is room to celebrate this form of spirituality whilst respecting the origin but also exploring the fantasy genre and I honestly think this can only be done with an ALL Black production that has access to well funded resources (I mean hello Black Panther only popped severely because it was money behind Black genius) and speaking of Black Panther, I think there is room to have deep social commentary in a movie like this because

for a villain, I was thinking there would be a big reveal and we would find out  that the man that she has always considered her spiritual advisor, her longtime  pastor, is actually an evil warlock that has been pretending to be a pastor in order to watch over Christine’s character life (I would cast Dennis Haysbert for this)

I would cast a Wood Harris as the proud owner of the business, who is recovering from a stroke and is rendered physically/financially dependent on others, especially his son, for the first time in his life, causing him to be resentful and bitter.

I would cast Trevante Rhodes as his son, who has taken over and is trying to keep the struggling business afloat, although he wishes nothing more than to make his father proud but nevertheless has to deal with brunt of his father’s emotional abuse.

Octavia Spencer 

and Shanice Williams 

The moment causes such an indelible effect that she switches majors and decides to go for a career in law and civil rights……decades later, as an adult (and a lawyer) she would go on to successfully prosecute and jail the said powerful white men (or men in general) that caused that the aforementioned bullshit she witnessed as a teen.

I imagine the 1st act to play out like something from John Singleton’s (forever rest) “Higher Learning”  with perhaps the levity of “House Party” before the inevitable “the hate u give” (by Angie Thomas) ending to the act.

I see Ryan Destiny playing the young, 90′s college student, version of the character

the 2nd and 3rd act would have a political thriller vibe akin to something off of “how to get away with murder” and my pick would be Gabrielle Union playing the older version of the character….who is now an attorney/activist/author (Think a character that is loosely based on Michelle Alexander) :

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I have pretty much gone out of my way to keep the suggestions as not mixed as possible but this fancast is too gold for me to not speak in to existence.

I haven’t exactly got a fully fleshed out concept for this one but lately I have been obsessed with the Cuban revolution….and in any dynamic of any situation my interest solely lies in how it impacts the respective Black society, and when you consider the fact that Cuba is 40% ish (if not more) of Black African descent…..and that I have been lately very interested in seeing a television series or a really long epic movie based on the 1950′s Cuban revolution WITH the narrative being exhumed from an Afro-cuban woman’s perspective……..think James Cameron’s “Titanic”….the way the narrative shifts from past to present….centering around a female character that survived the turmoil.

I imagine Lauren Vélez, as the modern day version of the character who experienced the revolution…who is living now in the 1980′s and is chronicling/writing a book about her ordeal in an autobiographical book (think the way Bilbo Baggins’ storyline is handled in LOTR)…the scenes strategically panning to her (typing the book) to give the audience more in depth context.

and (like in the Titanic) the younger self of the character being the forefront of the bulk story (but it would go back and forth) and I Imagine Tessa Thompson playing the younger version:

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