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Great news for fans of The Fresh Prince! The 90s sitcom which starred Will Smith has been given the green light to be remade as a gritty drama thanks to a four-minute mock trailer which went viral a year ago.
According to the 2019 mock film trailer's description : Ever wonder what The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air might look like if it suddenly returned to the airwaves in 2019? Well, given Hollywood’s current penchant for giving everything a “dark” and “gritty” backstory, it would probably look quite a bit like this superbly made fan film by director Morgan Cooper. Simply titled Bel-Air, it gives Will Smith’s young “Will” a considerably more dire origin story while keeping all of the major Fresh Prince beats intact.
Check Out The Mock Trailer For BEL-AIR Below
Will Smith responded to the trailer last year calling it brilliant and is teaming up with the creator of the trailer to turn it into a gritty drama. It is reportedly going to be a co-production between Smith's Westbrook Studios and the original producers Universal TV. According to online reports this drama will explore what it's like to be a black man living in America today which given the timing of the BLM movement means there is a lot of buzz about this tv drama with several major streaming services said to be engaged in a bidding war to secure the streaming rights.
