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Marlon Wayans’ Christian Grey will be shady and a bad lover
LAURI NEFF these scenes and I was like, American actor and star in the NBC network comedy series “I Can Do That” Marlon Wayans
Associated Press a funny version of this and poses for a portrait on Thursday, June 4, 2015, in New York.
NEW YORK (AP) — What do a funny version of that and
you get when you take one before you knew it we had Associated Press
of the year’s biggest box of- a really funny script.”
fice hits — “Fifty Shades of He was interviewed Thurs-
Grey” — and turn it over to day while promoting the
funny man Marlon Wayans? summer competition TV se-
Christian Grey is turning ries he’s hosting, “I Can Do
into Christian Black in Way- That,” which airs Tuesdays
ans’ spoof “Fifty Shades on NBC.
of Black,” which has been Wayans will star and co-
picked up by Open Road write the “Fifty Shades”
Films for release next Janu- spoof with longtime collab-
ary. orator Rick Alvarez. The film
Wayans, known for writing will be directed by Michael
and starring in cinematic Tiddes, who helmed both of
sendups like “White Chicks” Wayans’ “Haunted House”
and his “Scary Movie” films, movies. He is still working
says he thought it would be on his female lead but says
funny to do a comedic take “Fifty Shades of Black” will
on the erotic film, which is likely feature faces that fans
based on the novel of the have seen in his other films,
same name. such as Affion Crockett and
“What if Christian Grey was Cedrick the Entertainer.
black and he was rich but But don’t expect any “red
you kind of know how he got room of pain” in the Wayans
his money, it’s kind of shady spoof. He says in his film, the
and he’s a really bad lover? “playroom” will probably be
I mean it’s kind of similar to something like “chartreuse
the movie,” Wayans said or turquoise or some ugly
with a laugh. “They had all random color.”q
