A contemporary re-imaging of the 1973 action feature Cleopatra Jones is in the works at Warner Bros and Charles D. King’s Macro, with Lovecraft Country and Snowfall writer Ihuoma Ofordire writing.The original movie directed by Jack Starrett starred Tamara Dobson as an undercover government agent who uses her day job of supermodel to go undercover, travel to exotic places and prove herself invaluable to the local cops in the war on drugs.
The first movie played at a time when the Black Power Movement, Black Arts Movement, second-wave feminism were widespread.Ofordire, who is also an actress, co-wrote Episode 8 of Lovecraft Country, “Jig-a-Bobo”, which creator Misha Green directed.
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