TYLER PERRY DOMINATES HOLLYWOOD WITH 4 MOVIES AND A TV NETWORK IN 2012!

Wow!

Tyler Perry hustled 7 seasons of House Of Payne out of TBS. That’s amazing, especially in a current climate where networks are dropping shows like fake a$$’ on the dance floor after 1 season (some times less).

Big up to Mr Perry, even though I don’t at all care for the show. Obviously a lot of folks do though, seeing that it has lasted for so long. But wait, that’s not all. Even though it hasn’t been formally announced yet, and despite the fact that Perry already has 3 films scheduled for release in 2012, he said he plans to release a new Madea film in 2012 as well!  He’s not yet sure what this Madea tale will involve however. So make that 4 Tyler Perry films to be released in 2012 – 3 he stars in (Good Deeds, I, Alex Cross, and whatever the Madea movie will be); 1 he’s directing right now (The Marriage Counselor).

With regards to Good Deeds, Perry says that he actually wrote the script for it intending to cast someone else to star, stating, ”I was trying to find someone else to play the role, but all of the actors I wanted were doing other movies, so I decided I had to do it myself.”

Really Tyler? We know how much you love being in your own movies so I find it very hard to believe that all the black actors you wanted were too busy, puhlease!  I’m curious to know who these black actors were that Tyler wanted for the lead role and what other movies they were working on that made them too busy to collect a paycheck (probably a decent-sized one too). Unless he was going after Will Smith or Denzel Washington. Who else is THAT busy right now that they wouldn’t have taken the job and the check? I know some folks may have an aversion to appearing in a Tyler Perry movie, but, come on, a job is a job, and a paycheck is a paycheck… especially when you’re not exactly fielding offers left and right.

Perry says that while shooting I, Alex Cross, he apparently had a lot of time between takes and shoot days that he, well, ended up writing scripts for 2 more movies during those down periods.

“It was like a vacation, actually… I had so much down time on set that I ended up writing two movies,” he said. And what are those 2 movies he penned? No word yet, but the Variety profile says that they are “in the early stages.”

Lastly, as announced over the summer, Perry reiterated his plans to follow in his pal Oprah Winfrey’s steps and start his own TV network, which will be backed by Lionsgate of course. To be called Tyler TV, no launch date has been set yet, but it’s coming for sure. “I’m moving very carefully towards a network… I’m doing that deliberately because I want to make sure it’s the right fit. There are millions of people who have supported me over the years who are longing for it,” he said.

And he’s probably right about that last part! Even though some of them recently expressed anger over his casting of Kim Kardashian in The Marriage Counselor, saying they’ll boycott the movie (and possibly even him) if he doesn’t cut her out of the film. He isn’t. There’s gold in them thar hills, and Tyler wants his share of it. Can you blame him? He can’t be stuck doing Madea or adapting his stage plays forever, if he’s to have any longevity in this business, and I’m sure he knows that well.

Source: IndieWire