Mama Black Widow

Infobox Film
name = Mama Black Widow
director = Darren Grant
producer = Chris Hanley, Darren Grant, Dave Mortell, Erika Conner, Erix Arocha, John Probandt
writer = Robert Beck
Will de los Santos
starring = Anthony Anderson
Kerry Washington
Macy Gray
Mos Def
Rihanna(no longer confirmed on Imdb.com
released = 2009
country = U.S.A.
language = English
imdb_id = 0301595

"Mama Black Widow" is a book written by Iceberg Slim which has been made into a film. It's set to be released in 2009.

Film Details

The film which is being produced by Chris Hanley, Erix Arocha and Dave Mortell, will be directed by Darren Grant. Mary Vernieu is the casting director. The script was written by Will de los Santos and is being packaged by the William Morris Agency.

Filming is set to start shooting in December of 2008 in Chicago.

Will Santos was hired to rewrite his first draft but the additional work was so bad that the producers fired him.

Angela Bassett said playing the lead character would "be the role of a lifetime. You don't find stories of this caliber very often mainly because studios are afraid of them."

Rihanna is rumored to be in the film.

Plot

Mama Black Widow is the portrait of a black family's migration from the southern Mississippi fields of the segregated south to the ghettoized black underworld of Chicago during the 1930's. The story follows Otis Tilson's struggle to keep his family together as they navigate through a world of alcoholism, pimping, sexual deviation and racial degradation. Told in the gut level language of the original novel by Iceberg Slim, the family's journey is a harsh testament of lives lived on the margins of a racist and predatory world.

Cast

*Anthony Anderson — Lockjaw Hudson
*Brian J. White — Otis Tilson
*Kerry Washington — Sedalia Mama Tilson
*Macy Gray — Jonnie Mae Hudson
*Mos Def — Papa Tilson

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