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Warner Bros. going 'Uptown'
By Adnan Tezer Mar 29, 2011, 17:48 GMT
Warner Bros. and Overbrook Entertainment have hired Tim Dowling to rewrite their long gestating remake of the 1974 buddy comedy "Uptown Saturday Night."
According to Variety, David Dobkin ("The Change-Up") is attached to direct and executive produce.
Overbrook's Will Smith, James Lassiter, Ken Stovitz and Jada Pinkett Smith will produce.
The remake has been languishing in development since 2002 and was originally written by Mark and Robb Cullen ("Cop Out").
The original film starred Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier as two estranged friends whose wallets are stolen at a nightclub. When they realize the next morning that one of their wallets contained a winning lottery ticket, they set out to find it.
Will Smith and Denzel Washington have been the names attached to the two leads for the remake.
Dowling wrote the comedies "Role Models" and "Just Go With It." He also wrote the scripts for the upcoming Chris Pine-Tom Hardy spy film "This Means War," as well as the "Midnight Run" sequel for Universal.
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