It may not be Love Jones 2, but Nia Long and Larenz Tate are set to reunite onscreen as the leads of a new untitled romantic drama for Netflix.
Helmed by Sylvie’s Love writer-director, Eugene Ash, the new film is inspired by Maxwell’s debut album, Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite. However, further details including the logline are being kept under wraps, according to Deadline.
The film is being written by Kay Oyegun, a writer-producer who’s best known for her work on NBC’s This Is Us. Maxwell and John D. Hammond along with Long and Tate will serve as executive producers.
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Ever since Long and Tate starred in Theodore Witcher’s debut, Love Jones, fans of the cult classic have been begging for a sequel.
However, back in 2023, Tate admitted to being tired of getting asked about Love Jones, part two. In an interview, he stated, “It would be hard for us to catch lightning in the bottle twice.” He did admit that he and Long had been in talks about what it might look like.
He noted, “We feel like we should do something, but something different. TV show, movies that could be a franchise — we’ve discussed everything. We talked about all kinds of stuff because we know what ‘Love Jones’ meant, we know what those characters meant, and we know what the message and the story meant to us. And we don’t want to disrupt that […] and do something that doesn’t live up to our expectations of our audience would want from us.”
The following year, though, he teased that he was ready to “play somebody’s husband,” after becoming a household name through the Power franchise. He and Long have reunited several times in celebration of Love Jones over the years with the most notable moment coming last Christmas in a Walmart commercial.