Co-creatorLena Waitheknows the pressure is high forBoomerang.
Halle Berry and Eddie Murphy in 1992sBoomerang.
It was me, it was Robin Givens, Eddie Murphy.
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You gotta do something new for your generation.
I want people to feel like this is the Atlanta version ofBoomerang, on BET.
That was how I pitched it.
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But then it evolved into something on its own.
I think by the third episode, people are going to forget it was a movie.
And we all have trauma from our parents that we cant shake.
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That is our journey: to shake our trauma into fine art.
Were doing it because these things had such an effect on our spirits and our souls.
Maybe somebody will wanna remake [Donald Glovers]Atlanta, will wanna remakeThe Chior something.
I want to do that for the next generation.
