Remember the Hughes Brothers, Allen and Albert? They barely remember themselves. The twin-brother filmmaking duo hit Hollywood with an extremely auspicious start directing urban classics like, “Menace II Society,” and “Dead Presidents,” before getting sidetracked with documentaries that were good, but came and went (“American Pimp”) and unfortunate choices far from their wheelhouse (the adaptation of Alan Moore’s Jack the Ripper story, “From Hell”).
Though Allen recently directed an vignette in the short stories film, “New York, I Love You,” the duo haven’t made a feature length film since 2001 (the accurately rebuked ‘Hell’). According to Variety though, the twins are back and with a vengeance seemingly as they’ve cast Oscar-winner Denzel Washington into their newest project “Book of Eli.” The post-apocalyptic drama will see Washington play a “lone hero in a not-too-distant apocalyptic future who must fight across America to bring society the knowledge that could be the key to its redemption.”
Maybe it’s like the African-American version of Cormac McCarthy! 😉 It’s about time they’re back. Maybe they’ll refind their footing.