Prepare not to laugh! Keenan Ivory Wayans, the comedy genius behind “Dance Flick,” “Little Man” and “White Chicks” actually has not one, but two studios, teaming up to acquire his latest concoction, the comedy “It Takes A Village.”
The film will focus on “a 30-something white single career-obsessed woman who decides on a whim to adopt a child from a South Pacific island–and comes home with the tribe’s chief and seven elders who’ll stay until she proves she’s mommy material.” Let us guess: there will be lots of wacky fish-out-water comedy as tribesman learn to use microwaves, televisions and uh, figure out what those mysterious metallic, box like objects are that are moving around (ie. cars).
At the very least, this project spares us from “White Chicks 2” which (thankfully) fell apart at Columbia. But you see, this one will be different because Wayans has so much perspective now: “I’ve got five kids, been married, divorced, traveled, and if I’d tried this ten years ago, I wouldn’t have the same perspective,” said Wayans. “I’ve got a better view of what’s important, how you can get caught up in career and lost sight of what’s important. The dance of this movie is, you think these people are simple, but there’s wisdom in their simplicity and the way they deconstruct things to their simplest form. The child they’ve come to raise isn’t the baby, but rather the woman, as she prepares for the journey of being a parent.”
So the simple ways of a bunch of tribespeople help a privileged white woman get her life in order and prepare for motherhood? Yeah, that’s not fucking patronizing at all. We can’t wait to watch a motherhood movie where the Mom is the true baby of the film. Great.
Anyway, CBS Films and Columbia will have to turn it around quick; part of the deal is that once Wayans hands in the script, they need to get it moving within a limited timeframe or he gets to take it elsewhere.
Sorry “Inception,” Hollywood is still a world where a Wayans comedy is given a priority production deal. The dream is real.