If you’ve been dreaming of a feature length movie with Jamie Foxx and Martin Lawrence dressed up in drag, your prayers have finally been answered.
The stupidly titled “The Skank Robbers” first bubbled to the surface last year when the duo appeared as the characters Sheneneh and Wanda in a faux-movie trailer created for the BET Awards. Well, apparently suits and audiences went nuts for it, prompting a greenlight for a movie and with an official release date of August 19, 2011 penciled in, this thing is actually happening.
We guess we can’t really be surprised, after all Les Grossman got his own movie, but man, Jamie Foxx’s quality meter which at one point seemed to pointed in the right direction, has been spinning wildly all over the place lately. “Law Abiding Citizen”? “Kane & Lynch”? “Valentine’s Day”? Lord. At least he’s got Todd Phillips comedy “Due Date” later this year.
As for this movie, people get what they ask for but greenlighting movies based on sketches or internet memes is also a dicey prospect, just look at this year’s “MacGruber.” But clearly, Screen Gems think the combo of Foxx and Lawrence acting crazy in drag will be too much for audiences to resist…..