Get your popcorn prepared as Peacock has launched the trailer for The Finest Man: The Last Chapters. The eight-episode restricted collection is about to shut off the storyline of Harper Stewart (Taye Diggs) and his associates that started all the way in which again in 1999. Launched throughout the Urbanworld Movie Pageant in the identical place the place the franchise kicked off, the brand new footage brings the outdated gang again collectively for one final bumpy trip collectively that can take Harper to Hollywood.
The trailer begins off by highlighting simply how a lot the good friend group has modified because the begin of the franchise. Harper has been on the middle of drama involving his writing profession and his love life for over 20 years now, although he is at all times managed to make issues proper and maintain his associates shut. Audiences have not seen the gang collectively since 2013’s Christmas-themed The Finest Man Vacation. Now in the midst of their lives, the group by no means stops rising collectively, however The Last Chapters is overestimated because the bookend of the franchise. This time, Harper’s debut novel Unfinished Enterprise is getting the film therapy, and everybody’s able to pop the champagne.
One drawback with that information, nevertheless, is Lance (Morris Chestnut). That e-book almost destroyed their friendship within the first movie and sewed doubt of their relationship for years to come back earlier than the 2 lastly absolutely reconciled in Vacation. Though everybody has modified a lot since then, it is not more likely to go over properly for everybody to see the e-book, and by proxy one in every of Lance’s worst moments, be blown up onto the massive display. As Harper meets with Lance, and everybody else for that matter, they’re going to must wrestle with who they as soon as have been, who they’re now, and in the event that they’re comfy leaving their soiled laundry within the palms of Hollywood.
Collection creator Malcolm D. Lee celebrated the long-awaited conclusion to The Finest Man saga in an official assertion, revisiting why he needed to make the collection within the first place. He initially approached the collection with the intention of giving much-overdo illustration to the Black neighborhood in a extra regular setting, specializing in a gaggle of educated and bold associates as they explored the challenges of life and friendship. He spoke about how followers grew connected to the characters and their relationships, saying:
“Followers of the franchise have constantly requested me (and the stellar solid) when are we going to inform them what’s occurred with this group of associates? And what higher manner to do this than to offer them what they need (and extra) in a restricted collection. Given the second that we’re in, that is the proper time to revisit Harper, Lance, Murch, Quentin, Jordan, Robyn, Candace and Shelby and go on the wild, emotional, hilarious trip with them, as they cope with their very own journeys by means of parenting, activism, outdated love, new love and the complexities of being Black in twenty first Century America. It’s now greater than ever that the world is craving to see what I’ve labored my complete profession to indicate: relatable, common tales about black individuals and their humanity. It has at all times been my mission to make African-American tales mainstream. It’s my life’s work to inform tales that embody and elevate us. And I HOPE my legacy will likely be that I represented for us.”
The Finest Man: The Last Chapters will see the return of its star-studded principal solid with Diggs and Chestnut joined by Regina Corridor, Harold Perrineau, Melissa De Sousa, Terrance Howard, Sanaa Lathan, and Nia Lengthy. Lee will share showrunning duties with Insecure author Dayna Lynne North, and he’ll direct 4 episodes of the restricted collection. Charles Stone III, Robert Townsend, and Stacey Muhammad.
All eight episodes of The Finest Man: The Last Chapters will premiere on Peacock on December 22. Try the trailer under.
