Questlove And Black Thought To Craft Immersive Hip-Hop Movie
In accordance with experiences, The Roots’ lead MC Black Thought is writing and planning to direct a brand new movie, teaming up along with his bandmate Questlove on the challenge. The unnamed movie is deliberate to be powered by the 360-degree immersive platform WonderRoom with the hopes that it “drops audiences into Hip-Hop’s soul,” with its narrative.
Black Thought, aka Tariq Trotter, is partnering with the Unimaginable Artistic studio, who has been behind a number of immersive experiences in cities throughout the globe. On their web site, they describe their mission in creating these areas as “designing, filming and mastering 360° experiences that cross an illusory threshold – the place a room’s partitions, ceiling and ground disappear, giving audiences the expertise of being there, of infinite perspective in all instructions.” Questlove and Shawn Gee of Two One 5 Leisure are signed on as producers of the movie.
“I’m grateful to Unimaginable Artistic for entrusting me with their expertise in bringing my newest challenge to the world.” the Grammy Award-winning rapper mentioned in an announcement in regards to the challenge. “Hip-Hop has a wealthy and exquisite historical past, and by creating an area the place audiences play a job and bodily dwell out its biggest moments, the potential for a greater understanding of the style and its roots will increase considerably.”
“Working with Tarik and the workforce at Two One 5 is a dream come true. Tarik’s beautiful imaginative and prescient will permit audiences to really feel the music, tales, and tradition of Hip-Hop come alive round them in a method that’s by no means been skilled earlier than,” mentioned David Galpern, Unimaginable Artistic’s co-founder and producer.
FanX Studios Chief Working Officer Jonathan Schwartz will function government producer and supply oversight for Unimaginable Artistic, and Josh Williams can even oversee the movie challenge for Two One 5. Unimaginable Artistic is eyeing subsequent spring for the premiere to happen in New York Metropolis.
The movie world is nothing new for Black Thought and Questlove. Black Thought has quite a few appearing credit to his identify, together with HBO’s The Deuce dramatic sequence, 2010’s Night time Catches Us and the 2014 James Brown biopic Get On Up. Questlove received an Academy Award for Summer time of Soul, and can be the producer of the documentary Sly Lives! on the lately deceased rock pioneer Sly Stone.
