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Misha Green to Write and Produce Reboot of Blaxploitation Film “Cleopatra Jones”

“Cleopatra Jones”

Misha Green has lined up yet another project. The “Underground” co-creator will write and produce a new “Cleopatra Jones” film for Warner Bros., Deadline confirms. 1973’s “Cleopatra Jones” and 1975’s “Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold” are blaxploitation female empowerment movies featuring Tamara Dobson as an undercover government agent with the cover of supermodel.

The new “Cleopatra Jones” will “present the heroine very much as the female answer to James Bond,” the source writes. In addition to being a stylish agent, Jones is skilled in martial arts and drives a Corvette Stingray furnished with automatic weapons. The 1973 flick sees Jones fighting to stop drug kingpin Mommy (Shelley Winter) from growing poppy plants, the source of the inner city’s major drug problem. In the sequel Jones travels to Hong Kong to do battle with another drug kingpin, The Dragon Lady, who also runs a casino.

“Underground,” the WGN series Green created with Joe Pokaski, was cancelled after two seasons. There were rumors that it would continue on another channel or platform, but a third season has not been confirmed. However, Green is keeping plenty busy: she’s serving as showrunner, writer, and producer on Jordan Peele’s upcoming HBO anthology horror series, “Lovecraft,” and her spec script “Mother” was nabbed by Netflix. Like Peele’s “Get Out,” “Lovecraft” explores racial and social tensions via the horror genre. And “Mother” is being compared to “The Professional” and “La Femme Nikita” and has franchise potential.

Green has previously written for series such as “Heroes” and “Sons of Anarchy.”


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