Whitney Houston back to big screen after 15 years

Whitney Houston back to big screen after 15 years

MUMBAI: 47-year-old singer-and-actress, Whitney Houston, who has battled alcohol and cocaine addictions in the past is reuniting with her former Waiting to Exhale cast mates to create a sequel to the 1995 hit film which had her playing an unlucky-in-love television producer Savannah Jackson.

It is said that director Forest Whitaker is in the process of altering author-and-screenwriter Terry McMillan‘s follow-up of the film.

Confirming here comeback, Houston said, "It‘s preliminary, but it‘s going to happen, Waiting to Exhale 2. McMillan wrote Getting to Happy and she‘s written the screenplay while Loretta Devine, Lela Rochon, Whitney, Forest. Forest is working on the script now."

Meanwhile, it is known that Warner Cros will be remaking the 1992 hit film The Bodyguard that starred Whitney and Kevin Costner. Whitney will, however, not be part of the film.