Yes, you read that right. They’re remaking ‘Roots’. According to The Hollywood Reporter,
The cable network is developing an eight-hour mini based on the 1977 entry, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. History has acquired rights to the 12-hour original from Mark Wolper, the son of late Rootsexec producer David L. Wolper, as well as the book on which the mini was based, Roots: the Saga of an American Family, from the estate of author Alex Haley.
Just because 12 Years A Slave was a huge box office hit doesn’t mean that you have to go and remake every movie that has something to do with slavery.
