Kid 'n Play did a spectacular job."Ħ. Jeff Townes said that they just weren't into the project.
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"I was bummed," Hudlin remembered, "'cause it would've been great." Whatever movie they were supposedly going to do didn't happen, "but clearly Will Smith happened in a gigantic way." And " House Party was a success either way…I have no regrets. Still, Hudlin said that he met with Russell Simmons, the duo's manager at the time, but Simmons said his guys couldn't possibly do it, that they had something else lined up. I mean, if they're not genuinely enthusiastic about it, then… that's gonna hurt me." "I said, look, I love those guys-they're talented, they're funny, they'd be perfect for the movie,'" Hudlin-whose films include Boomerang and The Ladies Man as director and Django Unchained as a producer-recalled in 2010 for the vi deo series "A Moment in Comedy History With…" "But I don't want someone doing the movie because they lost a lawsuit. But neither party wanted it to go down like that.
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The first script the studio offered was House Party.ĥ.
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Smith and Townes could either pay a settlement or be in two New Line movies and their salaries would go toward the amount of money they owed.
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New Line Cinema offered the lead roles initially to DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince-aka Jeff Townes and Will Smith-after successfully suing the duo over their song "A Nightmare on My Street," which liberally sampled Freddy's voice and music from the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise without permission.