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05Sep2008

Trailer - 'Soul Men' with Samuel L. Jackson and the Late Bernie Mac

DateFriday, September 5, 2008 at 8:57PM
It was indeed sad to hear that both Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes had passed away so suddenly and within 36 hours of each other. Then I learned, as many others did, that they're both in Soul Men, which opens this November.

The title is a tip of that to the song "Soul Man," of course, but how many people knew that's actually an Isaac Hayes tune? Sam & Dave performed it back in the 1960s, though to the majority of us, the version recorded by The Blues Brothers is the one stuck in our heads from time to time.

Making it all the more bittersweet is that the movie is about a pair of singers who reunite 20 years after their last performance to honor the memory of their former bandleader, who has just passed away.

There's a trailer for the film now, which co-stars Samuel L. Jackson and is directed by Spike's cousin, Malcolm D. Lee. Here it is, fresh from Trailer Addict:

Soul Men will open on November 7th. And yes, that is the recently departed Don LaFontaine voicing that trailer, if my ears don't deceive me.

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