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A sequel to womanly weepie “Waiting to Exhale” is about as likely as a clean hooker, according to author Terry McMillan.
Though there were flutters of a “Waiting 2 : Electric Bogaloo” there for a while, McMillan suggests a sequel couldn’t go ahead now that actress Whitney Houston has moved on.
“I don’t think that’s going to happen. I really don’t,” McMillan told S2SMagazine. “It’s been horrible since Whitney [Houston] passed away for a whole lot of reasons. Fox wanted to basically eliminate that character altogether from the story. How they thought that was going to work, I don’t know.”
She doesn’t sound convinced, but agrees someone else could replace Houston.
“As much as I loved Whitney and I loved her in that role…any time they can have seven different 007s, as iconic as Whitney was and still was, it was a role. It wasn’t Whitney Houston; it was Savannah; you know what I mean,” said the best-selling writer. “I still think that Viola Davis would have done and could do a great job playing Savannah.”
Another stumbling block has been finding a good story.
“They got somebody else to write the script. There have been two or three drafts, but it just wasn’t working,” she said while voicing that she would have liked to bring “Getting to Happy,” the title of the book sequel, to movie screens. “It was a story that I thought was more compelling than trying to compete with the predecessor. That’s Hollywood. I think it’s kinda dead in the water.”
