Nilly_Chipples
10-02-2004, 02:55 PM
MTV.com (http://www.mtv.com)
Don't believe the hype. True, famed music-video director Hype Williams came back from his video-making hiatus with new clips for New Edition and Ja Rule and an upcoming video for Ashanti. But he insists he wants to focus on video games and step back into the feature-film realm.
Williams has been signed by producer Joel Silver to direct a remake of 1972's "Superfly," the classic Gordon Parks blaxploitation film.
"It's kinda like a modern-day retelling of the story," Williams said recently in Los Angeles. "We're going to be doing that at the end of the year, hopefully."
Full story here. (http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1491506/09302004/story.jhtml)
Don't believe the hype. True, famed music-video director Hype Williams came back from his video-making hiatus with new clips for New Edition and Ja Rule and an upcoming video for Ashanti. But he insists he wants to focus on video games and step back into the feature-film realm.
Williams has been signed by producer Joel Silver to direct a remake of 1972's "Superfly," the classic Gordon Parks blaxploitation film.
"It's kinda like a modern-day retelling of the story," Williams said recently in Los Angeles. "We're going to be doing that at the end of the year, hopefully."
Full story here. (http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1491506/09302004/story.jhtml)