Anthony Mackie recalls his failed Spike Lee TV movie that was meant to be like The Wire: 'The wheels fell off'

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Anthony Mackie recalled his tough experience working on Spike Lee's failed 2004 TV movie, 'Sucker Free City,' which was meant to be like 'The Wire': 'The wheels fell off.'

with over five years of experience covering the latest in entertainment. A proud Kingston University alum, Emlyn has written about music, fandom, film, television, and awards for multiple outlets including MTV News, only for both of them to receive lukewarm responses., a made-for-TV film that was supposed to serve as the pilot for a larger series that Showtime later declined to pick up.

Then, things took a sharp turn. “The head of Showtime left, they brought in another dude, him and Spike didn’t quite see quite eye-to-eye, then all of a sudden all the wheels fell off,” Mackie said, adding that the entertainment business is “so humbling because you can put in work and one decision can — Spike Lee, by the way — can derail your entire career.”wasn’t any better. “The movie came out and it was just… silence," he recalled.

The film, which told the story of a man who impregnates lesbian couples for money, grossed only $1.5 million back from its $9 million budget and sparked heavy criticism for its controversial storyline."With its walking-sperm-bank antihero, its stony fashionista lesbians , and its turgid lessons in the pornography of economics,manages to be at once racist, homophobic, utterly fake, and unbearably tedious," he wrote. "This time, it’s Spike Lee who’s doing the bamboozling.

 

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