Tyler Perry recently announced his next project, a remake of the 1975 play… For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf.  Time out, are we sure this is actually a play and not a Fiona Apple album title or Son of Sam notebook scribbling?  Someone should really be checking this things.

“Here’s my dream cast, and it hasn’t been officially announced yet. There are 15 characters in the film and my dream cast is Kimberly Elise, Cicely Tyson, Ruby Dee, Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey, Halle Berry, Angela Bassett, Thandie Newton, Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, and Beyonce. I’ve talked to 6 of the women and they have said yes.”

That’s like every black woman I’ve ever heard of, plus a couple I didn’t even know were black.

If you know anything about the play, you know that it’s a bunch of poems. There’s no real story, and that’s probably why it’s never been made into a movie. The way the movie opens is that all of these different women are leading their own lives, and they pass each other and you follow their stories. No one knows each other and halfway in the movie, they end up in this center that this woman started called ‘The Colored Girl center,’ where women go through like a 12-step program for healing. That’s what the script is about.” [via BVonMovies]

I always tell myself I should see a Tyler Perry movie just to see what they’re like, but then I hear words like “poems”, “no real story”, and “a 12-step program for healing” and it’s like an invisible dog fence that keeps shocking my neck when I get close.  Also, if the movie is about “a 12-step program for healing”, I think a good title would’ve been “Walk it Off.”