In response to reviews, 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 know-how in bringing my newest challenge to the world.” the Grammy Award-winning rapper stated in an announcement concerning the challenge. “Hip-Hop has a wealthy and delightful historical past, and by creating an area the place audiences play a job and bodily stay out its best 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 gorgeous 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,” stated David Galpern, Unimaginable Artistic’s co-founder and producer.
FanX Studios Chief Working Officer Jonathan Schwartz will function govt producer and supply oversight for Unimaginable Artistic, and Josh Williams may also 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 performing credit to his title, together with HBO’s The Deuce dramatic collection, 2010’s Evening Catches Us and the 2014 James Brown biopic Get On Up. Questlove gained an Academy Award for Summer time of Soul, and can be the producer of the documentary Sly Lives! on the just lately deceased rock pioneer Sly Stone.
