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When can the
world expect the Lisa Lopes Bio Pic?
Tracey Edmonds: We’re getting
really close and right now we’re up for
production approval. So, it’s at the
network right now and they’ve approved
the script. So, where getting a budget
together right now and hopefully we
might see that this summer.
Is this a film
or a television movie?
Tracey Edmonds: It will be a
television movie.
Will the focus
just be on her music career or her
entire life?
Tracey Edmonds: It will be
about her entire life and there will be
so many hings that the viewer will learn
about Lisa Lopes that puts her
personality and everything all in
perspective. So you’ll understand after
watching this movie why she is the rebel
that she was.
Is the Lopes
family involved in the film at all?
Tracey Edmonds: Yes. Lisa’s
family is very involved with the film
and we’ve been working closely with her
story.
Are Chilli and
T Boz working on the film alongside the
Lopes Family and Edmonds Entertainment?
Tracey Edmonds: Chilli and
Tionne are not involved persay. We’ve
reached out to them but because the
story focuses more on Lisa, even though
there are some TLC involvement, we
really kind of worked closely with
Lisa’s family.
Who would best
play Lisa?
Tracey Edmonds: It’s really a
hard call. We may end up having to do a
Talent Search to find a new face to play
Lisa. She’s really hard to imitate.
Fans really
miss her.
Tracey Edmonds: The more
research that we did for this film, the
more I could appreciate the individual
that she was. You really truly
understand, after you see in the film,
what made Lisa’s personality be the way
that she is and how interesting and how
many different layers there was to
Lisa’s personality that goes way beyond
headlines and burning down Andre Rison’s
house. Like we see that she had a very
spiritual side to her too and that she’d
been on a spiritual journey her whole
life.
How has it been
emotionally for the family with working
with Edmonds Entertainment to get this
story out?
Tracey Edmonds: Well, this
film hasn’t come to fruition on the
screen but they have been very involved
with the script and they work with the
writer very closely in terms of sharing
information and providing research for
the writer. They’ve been really really
wonderful to work with and the one thing
that they’ve really insisted on that we
tell the true story. They said that Lisa
would not want a sugar-coated version of
her life. She would want the world to
know how things really were and that’s
the story that we really want to tell.
Will we get to
hear any of the music that we haven’t
heard from Lisa’a solo venture?
Tracey Edmonds: Absolutely.
Yeah, Lisa’s solo music that was never
released will be in the film as well.
Is this just
the La Face Records music or is it a
compilation of that and the N.I.N.A [New
Identity Non-Applicable] project from
Suge Knight’s Tha Row label?
Tracey Edmonds: Yeah, it’s
some of the music that Suge Knight had
because she had the solo album. So there
will be some TLC music in there, some
music through her solo efforts on Arista
and the solo efforts from Suge Knight.
The Lisa Lopes Movie Summer 2005
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