Bernie Mac to take Spencer Tracy role

Bernie Mac, who co-starred as Bosley in Charlie’s Angels 2: Full Throttle, is to take the role played by Spencer Tracy in a remake of the 1967 film classic Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner?

In a twist on the original script, which dealt with a white father grappling with meeting his daughter’s black fiancé, played by Sidney Poitier, the father will be black in the new version and the prospective husband white.