The Hollywood Reporter reports that John Legend’s Get Lifted production company is working on a full-length documentary honoring the late comic. The project was unveiled at a Thursday panel discussion at the 2021 Tribeca Festival, and it was reportedly given the light by Mac’s estate.
Mike Jackson, Legend’s producing partner explained: “We just partnered with Bernie Mac’s estate to cover Bernie Mac’s story,” adding that the collaboration was “something that John doesn’t know about yet” seeing as it “just happened today.”
The surprised singer responded: “Look at you breaking news over here,” before mentioning his participation in the 2008 film Soul Men, which also starred Mac and Samuel L. Jackson. “The Soul Men reunion you all wanted to see … His humor was always edgy but it always had so much heart to it at the same time. You could tell he was a family man. You could tell that he loved the people he was talking about. He truly just got joy from lighting people’s faces up with laughter.”
Mac passed away on 9th August 2008, at age 50, only a few months before the release of Soul Men. Friday, The multi-hyphenate comic was well-known and loved for his roles in The Players Club, the Ocean’s franchise, Mr. 3000, and his NAACP-winning show The Bernie Mac Show.
The news comes after John Legend announced his forthcoming ‘Bigger Love Tour’ in the United States which is slated to begin on the 1st of September.
John’s attendance at the festival was in efforts to promote ‘The Legend of the Underground,’ a documentary film he created under his Get Lifted production company. The film had its world debut at Tribeca on Thursday night, and it will be aired on HBO on June 29.
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