Over the weekend it was revealed that Sony Pictures is in development on a new versions of 1972’s Super Fly, and now comes word of another blaxploitation remake in the works, this time at Warner Bros. Pictures.
According to Deadline, Misha Green (Underground) is writing and producing a new take on the 1973 film Cleopatra Jones, which starred Tamara Dobson as a U.S. Special Agent who uses her day job as a supermodel as her cover, and finds herself on the trail of a drug kingpin called Mommy, played by Shelley Winter.
Although details on the remake are scarce, it is said that the film will present its heroine “very much as the female answer to James Bond.”
The co-creator, writer and executive producer of WGN’s Underground, Green also wrote the Netflix film The Mother, and is currently working on Lovecraft with J.J. Abrams and Jordan Peele.
