Tyler Perry Watches Superhero Movies With His Son, but Has No Plans to Make One: ‘They’ve Never Been Something That I Enjoy’
variety.comMarc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Add Tyler Perry to the list of filmmakers not interested in directing a superhero movie. “You’ve got to have a passion for it.
I’m not a big superhero person,” the prolific multi-hyphenate told me at the Los Angeles premiere of his new WWII epic, “The Six Triple Eight.” “They’ve never been something that I enjoy.” However, Perry said, “my son enjoys them, so we watch them together.” Perry has created dozens of movie, television and stage projects in his decades-spanning career.
His latest, “The Six Triple Eight,” is arguably his largest scale production yet. The Netflix film, starring Kerry Washington with a cameo by Oprah Winfrey, tells the story of the only all-Black female U.S.
Army unit to serve overseas during WWII. Perry also shared that he’s currently writing a Christmas movie – “It’s going to have a lot of gospel music” — but revealed that he wasn’t sure what his moviemaking future would be after he completed his passion project, 2022’s “A Jazzman’s Blues.” “‘A Jazzman’s Blues’ was the first thing I wrote.
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