"Coming 2 America"
 

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I've been following the crap out of this. It appears to be happening now.



Announced:
https://movieweb.com/coming-2-americ...ard-paramount/

Last month, screenwriters mention it involves Akeem looking for his son in America:
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/c...ry?id=56141336

Please don't cast Kevin Hart...

They should have done a sequel to this years ago.

I hope Eddie Murphy plays all the other characters like he did in the 1st one. And I hope they also bring back Arsenio Hall.

Maybe they can get this out before James Earl Jones passes away.

I hope there's more barber shop scenes.

I'm cautiously optimistic.

Haven't seen the movie in forever, it's awesome but does it really need a sequel?

I hope the sequel is not a retread of the first one. But rather the complete opposite. Where the Son goes to Africa with his Father. and his reaction to being in a foreign country.

Yeah it would be like the 1st one. But in reverse.

That's definitely the biggest concern... that this could turn out to be a requel.

Could be cool. I'll be looking out for it.

It's got a director.

https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/...kKx6rKaGUprus0

I'm sure this will come out right after Beverly Hills Cop 4 and Triplets.

Whatever uncertainties may have surrounded this sequel... the only absolute certainty after "Black Panther"'s success is this movie's reality.

And I can't wait. I hope it has the same teeth.

... This has Anchorman 2 written all over it. I love the original Coming to America. I just don't think the premise will work at all anymore.

That said, if it works and I'm wrong then it's still a win-win. God knows we need some decent comedy movies. The past couple of years have been god awful when it comes to comedy movies.

Eddie Murphy played a couple of characters in the 1st movie. So hopefully it will be the same for this. Remember those scenes that took place in a Barbershop? He played some of the characters in those scenes. Even Arsenio Hall played one of them.

No need, the original is fine without a sequel which feels unwanted.

I always enjoyed the original since i saw it in theaters as a kid.

It gets a release date:
https://comicbook.com/movies/2019/02...2-release-date

Wow, it must be filming! Sweet.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/coming-t...clip-screened/

Behind the scenes photos! It's happening.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/first-co...-2-bts-photos/

Wesley Snipes Joins Coming to America Sequel
https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/ne...america-sequel

James Earl Jones is back, too:

https://deadline.com/2019/08/james-e...el-1202663755/

Now Eddie's wife from the first one has been confirmed:

http://www.darkhorizons.com/headley-...ing-2-america/

This is one of those movies I hope is really good but knowing Eddie Murphy's track record since the 2000's is probably going to be absolutely terrible.

Think of what Jim Carrey's Dumb and Dumber 2 was to the first. Whenever they finally make a long awaited sequel to an old 80's and 90's movie after like 20 years, it turns out to be bad. I can only think of a small handful of exceptions.

You give him a good, funny script and he's always been gold. He just hasn't been given one of those since... most of us were teenagers.

PG-13:

http://www.darkhorizons.com/coming-t...3-says-murphy/

For some reason I thought the original was PG-13 or PG, but it turns out it was R.

The TV edits were always PG-ish.
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/mov...ing-to-america

There are so many movies that shock me out of my familiarity comforts when I watch them without the TV edits.

The best line in the movie has "****" in it twice, so yeah, unforgettably R.

Eriq La Salle is out:

http://www.darkhorizons.com/la-salle...ing-2-america/

Though I wasn't really expecting him to return. Why would Akeem's wife's ex be still hanging around?

Just rewatched the movie. Yeah, that's pretty hard R. It begins with lots of boobs and there's probably 30 or more F bombs in the movie. Samuel L. Jackson even shows up around the middle to say "muthaf*cka" during a robbery.

Eh, now I'm really disappointed part 2 will be PG-13.

A trailer has been readied and rated. Maybe a week or so we'll see it!

https://www.darkhorizons.com/coming-...r-rated-ready/

heh, kinda reminds me the first time I rented Ghostbusters and saw the actual movie and not the tv-censored version. The dream ghost sequence and the whole line about 'yes it's true, this man does not have a dick' and so forth caught me off guard.

I wonder will it be released in theaters this year or moved to next year.

Seeing that this year is almost over, I'd expect it to get a release next year.

I think there might be a push to get it out more sooner than later. You know, release it in November to the theaters that are open, then 2-3 weeks later do the Bill & Ted 3 VOD model.

I mean, if they want to cash in on and ride the BLM wave and all (because I don't think it's going to be going this strongly next year). Just saying. Nothing wrong with that if it helps it make more money.

Damn. Sold to Amazon for 125 million. Coming to Amazon Prime in December.

https://collider.com/coming-2-americ...-eddie-murphy/

I hope this turns out good as the original is classic. But everything about it feels like "direct to video sequel" if it came out in the 90's.

Oh, awesome. I hope more movies follow suit. I'm getting annoyed with all these delays. Just release them digitallyyyyyy.

Agree 100%.

I know I haven't been to a theater in a bit, pandemic be damned.

Release a damn trailer already.

Kind of sad. They shot it as PG-13 to maximize profits... then just end up dumping it to Amazon Prime, where it could have been R or whatever and it wouldn't really move the meter.

I don't understand, though. Why not release it to the theaters that are actually open? Like, what's the harm? Do that, and THEN dump it to Amazon Prime.