Originally Posted by
TheMotownManiac
The convo has morphed to Flo. The point, again, is that no one helped until AFTER she was out of the group. No one stood up to BG or tried to intervene on her behalf. No one.
As for the top top of the thread:
1) NO ONE will make a movie of Mary’s book because:
A) The Book is decades old and means nothing to today’s movie audience.
B) The book, supposedly, is about Mary and no one knows who Mary Wilson is anymore.
C) The book, thanks to the internet, as source material is Now known to be a one-sided, factually iffy, attempt to shape public image for the gain of its author and not at all a true picture of the group. Case in point: leaving in petty details from childhood and ignoring Diana passing out onstage from exhaustion and having to be hospitalized.
D) Anyone doing a movie about a The Supremes would be a fool to use her book as that would require a payment for the rights and royalties. The story can be told without the book.
E) using Mary’s book title would be confusing and a turnoff if the word Dreamgirl was used and no one would be interested in Mary’s life story because almost no one knows who she is.
Id love a movie about the Supremes, there wouldn’t need to be a villain, but I’m not expecting one.
Now, suppose someone did a film mostly about Mary, focusing on her to be a jealous, manipulating Mattress who had a hard time with veracity and was so consumed with envy and resentment that she wrote a book and created a name for herself As the victim of Diana Ross until the internet age proved otherwise. The entire storyline could be 100 percent factual - just very one-sided. Make Mary out to be like the bad girl from a The Children’s Hour. THAT story might sell and be made into quite an interesting indie film. Anyone can tell any story with the right spin and focus.
No one will ever film Dreamgirl: My Life as a Supreme.
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