
Get a few chuckles with a skit, and soon it will become a film. If you're a fan of the BET Awards, you should be familiar with Sheneneh and Wanda. The two made up the super-stylishly named bank-robbing team
Skank Robbers, a faux trailer parody (after the jump) that aired during the awards, played by
Martin Lawrence and
Jamie Foxx respectively. This skit got enough laughs that it wasn't only deemed successful, but also cinematic --
Variety reports that the pair have decided to turn the brief concept into a film, a la
Machete.
Sheneneh and Wanda, two characters dreamed up during the comedians' stand-up days, will be "modern-day independent women trying to make it on their own, one bank robbery at a time." The pair have been wanting to star in a movie together for a while, so this is their big shot -- one that Foxx is writing and Screen Gems is fast-tracking.
...This is it?
Granted, I'm not some
old-school Sheneneh fan, but what exactly is it about this pair that makes them worthy not only of a feature film, but also being fast-tracked? Hasn't Hollywood already gotten enough comedians cross-dressing? Don't these men have something better to do than ... this? And if now is the time to bring
In Living Color to the big screen, oh, the other characters I would pick.
MacGruber, Sheneneh, Wanda ... what skit is next?
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