Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Morris Chestnut’s ass gets leaked on New Best Man Final Chapters movie.
There’s a reason we’re still talking about this movie 22 years later.
The Best Man — boasting a truly stacked cast: Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Morris Chestnut, Harold Perrineau, Terrence Howard, Sanaa Lathan, and Regina Hall — is now on Netflix
“The Best Man” (1999) and “Best Man Holiday” (2013) hold heavyweight status in the canon of classic films that grew with their audience and made a real impact. So when filmmaker Malcolm D. Lee thought the franchise deserved an ending, he started writing.
“I wanted us to get back to some fun. I mean we had fun in ‘Best Man Holiday,’ but it was also very sad,” Lee told HuffPost. “And I wanted to have a much more comedic time with these folks. So I had that movie in mind, and I wrote it and had another movie in mind to continue and close out the series, but we weren’t able to come up with a budget that worked for the studio and so it was like ok let’s give it a go as a limited series.”
More than 20 years after the original film debuted, Lee connected with showrunner and “Insecure” alum Dayna Lynne North who was able to reunite the cast for a final hurrah with “The Best Man: The Final Chapters.” The series premieres Thursday on Peacock.
When we met them, the characters were upwardly mobile 20-somethings just getting into the stride of figuring out love, life and friendship. In “Final Chapters,” we’re reintroduced to them as life has settled in and the “real adulting” is happening, as Long described it.
We pick up with them as they prepare for Quentin’s (Howard) wedding in the Dominican Republic. His longtime situationship with new “Housewives” star Shelby (De Sousa) is spiraling. Jordan (Long) and Harper (Diggs) are respectively grinding their way to the top of their careers while exchanging some serious sexual chemistry despite Harper being married to Robyn (Sanaa Lathan). Candace (Hall) is still married to Murch (Harold Perrineau) as we see her juggle graduate school, work and motherhood. Meanwhile, Lance (Chestnut) is still coping with the death of Mia (Monica Calhoun), often in self-destructive ways, while being a single parent.
Chestnut told HuffPost he misses Calhoun in this story, but he knew fans needed closure.
“Having the opportunity to be performers and to be a part of a project like this that’s so strongly entrenched within the community because of the storylines, because of the relatability of the characters which have prevailed throughout years, it’s been somewhat magical to be a part of,” he said. “We love working with each other, so that was a great opportunity, that was the icing on the cake, but the main thing was just to come back and give the fans another installment.”
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