Jamie Foxx and John Boyega uncover a government conspiracy in They Cloned Tyrone's outrageous trailer. Directed and co-written by Juel Taylor, the comedy-thriller centers on street hustler Fontaine (Boyega), local pimp Slick Charles (Foxx), and sex worker Yo-Yo (Teyonah Parris) as they discover an underground lab where an unknown government agency preys on the local Black neighborhood with nefarious experiments. Rounding out the cast are 24's Kiefer Sutherland, In Living Color's David Alan Grier, White Men Can't Jump's (2023) J. Alphonse Nicholson, and The Good Fight's Tamberla Perry.
Netflix's They Cloned Tyrone trailer features Foxx and Boyega uncovering a terrifying government conspiracy.
After witnessing a strange abduction in his neighborhood, Fontaine partners with Slick Charles and Yo-Yo to unravel a Twilight Zone-style plot. Filled with laughs, intrigue, and action, They Cloned Tyrone's trailer teases one of Netflix's biggest comedies of the summer.
What to Expect From They Cloned Tyrone
Taylor's original screenplay for They Cloned Tyrone initially gained recognition on The Black List, an annual collection of unproduced scripts voted upon by the industry's top studio and management executives. The film was first announced in 2019 with Atlanta star Brian Tyree Henry set to star as Fontaine. After negotiations fell through, Henry was replaced a year later with Boyega. Originally set to release in December 2022, They Cloned Tyrone is now slated to premiere on Netflix July 21.
Filmed prior to Foxx's debilitating stroke, the Academy Award-winning actor chews up the scenery as a stereotypical pimp with The Marvels star Parris as his partner-in-comedy. Boyega appears to play the straight man in They Cloned Tyrone, a mystery rooted in several long-running conspiracy theories that have the United States government using Black communities as test beds for experiments. One such popular conspiracy involving fried chicken makes an appearance in Taylor's film with the food being used as a vehicle for a mind or mood-altering drug. The conspiracy was also used as a central plot point for the Eddie Griffin comedy Undercover Brother.
They Cloned Tyrone follows a recent trend of strong cultural storytelling that examines the Black experience through elevated genre films. Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You analyzed class and race under capitalism, Jordan Peele's Academy Award-winning Get Out took a look at the stresses of mixed-race relationships in a post-Obama America, while Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz's Antebellum gave audiences a riveting thriller that imagined slavery in the modern world. Audiences can finally see They Cloned Tyrone when it lands on Netflix next month.
Source: Netflix
