PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS… KENNETH RANCE
Black screenwriter Kenneth Rance pens new Renee Zellweger romantic comedy, “New in Town.”
Presented by Electronic Urban Report.
SCREENWRITER KENNETH RANCE IS ‘NEW IN TOWN’: African American writer pens new Renee Zellweger crossover romantic comedy.
– by Ricki Morris
*Screenwriter Kenneth Rance wrote a love story that has more than one happy ending.
In the new Lionsgate film, “New In Town,” starring Renee Zellwewer, his main character succeeds in her career, creates long lasting friendships, and get’s the man of her dreams.
It’s a typical happily ever after love story, right? Interestingly enough, this story’s true happy ending has nothing to do with finding Prince Charming.
“I never set out to write a film about race,” explained Rance, to EUR’s Ricki Morris, about his new romantic comedy “New In Town.” “I wrote a film about a woman, who was on her way to the top, she takes this assignment in this small little town and she realizes she’s the only African American woman in this town of 13,000 Germans and Swedes. She’s (then) confronted with her loneliness and she ends up falling in love with a guy she wouldn’t, in essence, (have) given the time of day in the big city.”
Rance said that even though the story was originally about a black woman, it was still diverse enough for the main character to be ethnically different.
“What I was trying to demonstrate (was) that, as people of color our stories are more diverse than hip hop … drugs … gangs … crime and violence,” said Rance. He continues by saying that though most stories about African Americans can be tragic, when he wrote his screen play he wrote “And They Lived Happily Ever After.”
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