Bel-Air, Peacock’s modern-day reinterpretation of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, volition debut connected February 13th, the streamer announced connected Monday and shared a first-look trailer. Announced backmost successful 2020, Bel-Air re-envisions the classical ‘90s sitcom arsenic an hour-long play series. All the main characters from the archetypal return, including Uncle Phil and Carlton, though they whitethorn not beryllium similar you retrieve them. That's astir evident with Carlton who comes disconnected arsenic bashful successful the trailer. Thankfully, Will's champion person Jazz looks existent to his inspiration.
The task was inspired by a instrumentality movie writer and manager Morgan Cooper released successful 2019. Both Cooper’s instauration and the Peacock bid thin into the archetypal premise of The Fresh Prince, utilizing Will’s travel from West Philidelphia to Bel-Air to archer a communicative astir 2nd chances, contention and class. Will Smith’s Westbrook Studios produced the series, with Cooper serving arsenic director, co-writer and enforcement producer. He told Smith successful 2019 the thought for Bel-Air came to him portion driving down Interstate 71. He was reasoning astir the archetypal amusement erstwhile helium drove an underpass and inspiration hit. "I knew I had a communicative to tell," helium said astatine the time.
Peacock volition merchandise the archetypal 3 episodes of Bel-Air connected Super Bowl Sunday, with consequent episodes to travel weekly. The bid is presently slated to tally for 2 seasons.
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