The official trailer for the series The Best Man: The Final Chapters has dropped. The series is a follow-up to one of the more unusual long-running film series in recent memory, which began with the 1999 film The Best Man, helmed by Space Jam: A New Legacy and Girls Trip director Malcolm D. Lee. The ensemble comedy followed one eventful night in the lives of a group of friends celebrating the bachelor party of their mutual friend Lance Sullivan (Morris Chestnut). Over the course of the evening, it is revealed that Harper's (Taye Diggs) buzzy new book Unfinished Business is secretly based on their own lives and reveals some dirty secrets they may not want to come to light.
The ensemble of characters introduced in The Best Man - including Harper, Lance, Robyn (Sanaa Lathan), Jordan (Nia Long), Quentin (Terrence Howard), Shelby (Melissa De Sousa), Candace (Regina Hall), and Murch (Harold Perrineau) - would later return to the big screen over a decade later in 2013's The Best Man Holiday. Although talk of another The Best Man sequel cropped up at the time and continued throughout the ensuing decade, it failed to materialize until now. After all that time, the follow-up has now morphed into an eight-episode series that will reunite all eight returning cast members, streaming on Peacock starting December 22.
This weekend, Peacock released the official trailer for The Best Man: The Final Chapters. In addition to showing off the returning cast and catching up with where the characters are in their lives (including Murch and Candace's daughter going off to college), the show reveals an unexpected meta twist. The series may in fact be about the making of the film The Best Man, as the clip opens with Harper being contacted by his agent and learning that his book Unfinished Business is being adapted into a movie.
Can The Best Man Series Recapture the Magic of the Original Films?
This isn't the first time that the Best Man cast has reunited after so much time apart, so it's entirely possible for them to bring the same charm that captured audiences before. However, one thing that may prove concerning is whether or not their busy schedules were able to allow enough time for the ensemble to spend much time together, instead of being mostly siloed off in their own episodes. This seems like the approach the show may be taking, considering the fact that there are eight episodes for eight characters.
For The Best Man: The Final Chapters to work, it needs to make sure the chemistry between its cast can still shine. This was the biggest issue that was raised by fans with Netflix's Arrested Development season 4, which mostly featured storylines where the main characters were separated or only brought together by tricky editing and greenscreen. If The Final Chapters can avoid this pitfall, it may very well become some fans' favorite comedy series of the year.
Source: Peacock