*Anyone dreaming of Tyler Perry making a superhero movie can rest easy. It’s not going to happen.
During an interview at the recent premiere of his new World War II film, “The Six Triple Eight,” the actor/film and TV producer admitted that while his son enjoys superhero adventures on the big screen and he watches them with him, don’t expect him to add the high action genre to his filmmaking catalog.
“You’ve got to have a passion for it. I’m not a big superhero person” Perry told Variety. “They’ve never been something that I enjoy.” However, he then said, “my son enjoys them, so we watch them together.”
Helming a film with super-powered characters may not be in Perry’s future, but he is interested in putting his stamp on a feature he already has music in mind for.
“It’s going to have a lot of gospel music,” the entertainment mogul shared while mentioning that he is currently writing a Christmas film.
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Currently, Perry’s focus is on “The Six Triple Eight.” The forthcoming war drama, which he directed, wrote, and co-produced, centers on the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, a predominantly black, all-female battalion that served overseas during World War II.
Prior to “The Six Triple Eight,” Perry’s aim was to bring his passion project, 2022’s “A Jazzman’s Blues,” to the masses. Despite it being a noteworthy endeavor, Perry admits he was doubtful about what was on his movie-making horizon afterward.
“‘A Jazzman’s Blues’ was the first thing I wrote. It took me 27 years to make it,” he said. “Once I made it, I felt like I’ve done it, I’m good. I kind of lost that drive for the next thing.”
That next thing was “The Six Triple Eight,” which put a fire in Perry to make.
“I was embarrassed that I didn’t know the story,” he revealed. “There were 855 Black women in World War II and nobody knew it? But I found out one of the reasons was because a lot of the women came back from the war and were ashamed. What they were hearing was that people thought they were sent over to be concubines for Black soldiers because there were white soldiers who were upset that Black soldiers were dating European women. So they thought that was why all these women were over there just for that reason, and it wasn’t that way.”
“The Six Triple Eight,” is set to be released on Dec. 20 on Netflix.
So what say you? If Tyler Perry decided to make a superhero movie, what kind of movie would it be? Would he take on a hero or villain connected to Marvel or DC? Or would it be a character created by him to save the day?
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