‘Foxy Brown’, AKA Pam Grier, Will See Stage And TV Adaptations Of Her Works
deadline.comPam Grier was a guest this week on The Jennifer Hudson Show, and revealed there are big plans afoot for her legendary 1974 Blaxploitation classic, Foxy Brown. “We’re going to be doing Foxy Brown also as a musical,” Grier announced, but didn’t provide many details.
She also shared that a studio is producing a seven-episode limited series based on her 2010 memoir, Foxy: My Life in Three Acts.
The series will detail her relationships with basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and the comedians Freddie Prinze and Richard Pryor. “It can’t be a seven-hour movie, but it’s going to be a [limited] series like the series I’m promoting today, Them, so it’ll be seven episodes, shot like a film,” the actress said.
Foxy Brown was part of a Blaxploitation trilogy, sandwiched between Coffy and Jackie Brown. “Foxy was strategically more radical and aggressive,” Grier said earlier to EW. “I wanted to show that side of womanhood.
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