Nineteen years ago Hollywood gave America Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt in WHAT WOMEN WANT. Great movie for its time. Sadly, Hollywood has no original thought. Plagarism is what it appears (unless its the same writers and directors).
This stand out to me as, either the black movie industry cannot create original material. This isn't the first movie gone black. Could it be that this is Hollywood rehashing old storylines to gain a buck? Could be.
Hollywood has to know that some movies can never be changed and expect the same reaction. WALKING TALL, for instance, can NEVER truly be replaced with "Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. He'll never replace Joe Don Baker as Buford Pusser. If You're young and have watched Johnson's Walking Tall but not the original then you have no concept. Hollywood took a generation's folk hero that was white and then replace him and his family with a mixture of races. Also, Hollywood then moved the "whole" story to the other side of the country. The movie SUCKED!
It boils down to money and race