Did
you know that there was an Aaliyah movie in the works? Yeah, its
true. Whenever I hear about a movie being made about a singer I
always have to check out who is playing the part. In this case it is
a young girl named Zendaya Coleman. Now, she doesn't look like
Aaliyah except for the fact that they are both light skinned. This
really shouldn't matter because plenty of biographies have stars that
look nothing like the real person.
Best example is Angela Bassett as
Tina Turner in What's Love Got To Do With It. She looked nothing like
that woman but it worked out fine because her acting was so damned
good.
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| So good! |
I say
a movie was in the works but that isn't true since members of
Aaliyah's family were pissed from the start that it was being made.
One of her cousins named Jomo Jankerson (these names, these names...)
who is also the president of her label Blackground Records said “It's
never been about the actress. The problem that we have is that
Aaliyah was an icon and she deserves an iconic tribute, not a
Lifetime movie.” Come on now. Let'snot get carried away. “We want
a major studio release along the lines of 'What’s Love Got to Do
With It,' the Tina Turner movie. This needs A-list actors, A-list
talent that can breathe life into what we think is a phenomenal
story.” Yeah...but no. Not at all.
