WASHINGTON (7News) — Malcom D. Lee, the director of popular films including “Girls Trip,” “Scary Movie,” and 1998’s “The Best Man,” is back to finish what he started.
Lee, alongside author Jayne Allen, teamed up to release The Best Man: Unfinished Business. The book is the beginning of 3-part book trilogy that continues from “The Best Man” franchise, including two films: “The Best Man,” “The Best Man Holiday,” and a subsequent limited series, “The Best Man: The Final Chapters.”
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“We’re here introducing the book,” Allen, an author for “Black Girls Must Die Exhausted,” told 7News. Lee and Allen have been on a book tour including New York, Baltimore, and Detroit. One of those stops included Washington, D.C., during the 57th Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. National Convention.
The duo spent over two hours signing hundreds of fans’ books and taking pictures.
After nearly three decades, fans have still fallen in love and followed the franchise and its characters, including Morris Chestnut, Nia Long, Taye Diggs and Sanaa Lathan. Lee said he initially wrote the 1998 film because of the lack of representation for men who looked like him.
‘When I wrote The Best Man, it was because I wasn’t seeing brothers like me, brothers that I went to school with, represented on screen,” Lee said. “I think the educated brothers. The best man was written for Black men, for and about Black men. And so I don’t want that to get lost. Even though there’s been the support from Black women has been tremendous. They over-index on this franchise. And I want to remind fellas that this is also for them. This is very much for and about them. And we want to remind them of that and have them purchase the books, read the books, experience it,” Lee said.