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Malcolm D. Lee and Dayna Lynne North Tease the ‘Midlife Metamorphosis’ at the Heart of ‘The Best Man: The Final Chapters’

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Angelique Jackson Filmmaker Malcolm D. Lee has long considered how he’d wrap up the stories of “The Best Man” crew — Lance (Morris Chestnut), Shelby (Melissa De Sousa), Harper (Taye Diggs), Candace (Regina Hall), Quentin (Terrence Howard), Robyn (Sanaa Lathan), Jordan (Nia Long) and Murch (Harold Perrineau).

And after two box-office blockbuster movies, the creator/executive producer/co-showrunner confirms that “The Best Man: The Final Chapters” is really the end.“I don’t have any other story to tell with this friend group.

I want to finish what I started,” Lee told Variety, as he prepared to debut the first footage from the limited series during the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival earlier this month. “When the first ‘Best Man’ [came out in 1999], I definitely had no intention of doing a sequel, but if I did it was gonna be 10 years later, when they had a chance to live some life,” he says, recounting how it took nearly 15 years instead.When “The Best Man Holiday” debuted in 2013, the sequel netted more than $71 million at the box office.

Lee was prepared to finish out the series with two more films, but as the world turns, and with the advent of streaming and a boom of limited series, “The Final Chapters” landed on Peacock for an eight-episode run.“I really want to close these stories out for the fans, but I figure let’s let it end there.

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