When I was a kid, I used to watch Soul Train every damn weekend. I would sit and imagine that I would grow up be one of those cats dancin' with some hot broad who's probably only there with him because he's on the show. My favorite segments were ofcourse, The Soul Train Scramble Board, and the signature of the show, The Soul Train Line. That's where everybody would gather in two lines, leaving just enough room for dancers to show their stuff one after another. It was a stroke of genius by the show's creator and long-time host, Don Cornelius. Many a famous person got their big break as a part of that line, and it became a symbol of cool up until the moment Cameron Diaz besmirched it in Charlie's Angels(although I love that part of the movie, don't get me wrong).
Anyway, Variety is reporting that Don Cornelius has teamed up with Warner Bros. to produce a film based around the iconic dance show. Cornelius will co-write alongside Dead Presidents scribe, Malcolm Spellman. The film will be set in the 1980's, and involves a street dancer who longs for the big time, and hopes that he can get his break by appearing on Soul Train.
Eh, while I love the idea of Soul Train as the centerpiece of a story, the plot sounds way too formulaic for my taste. If it were me, and this is my putting on my writer hat(which has been gathering dust for years) I'd have made the film about the people who are already a part of the regular cast of dancers on Soul Train. Sortof like the film 54, I guess. Treat the show like a club and explore the lives of the people who are always there. I have no interest in a movie about a breakdancer tryin' to make it big. That's boring to me. But I'll try to withhold judgement, and trust that Cornelius still has the eye for identifying what's cool.
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