That was what I wanted Future to bring to this.” Future Burak Cingi/Redfernsīut the director didn’t want Future to be stuck in the past. He was literally narrating the story and being a voice of reason to a degree. “It’s that Curtis Mayfield was doing a commentary on what was happening. “It’s more than just that the music was great,” says X, who used the songs “Superfly” and “Pusherman” from the original soundtrack in his movie. The music plays an important role in driving the film, as with the original. Just as Lamar did for this year’s smash “Black Panther,” Future curated the soundtrack with all new tracks, appearing on most of them himself while also enlisting artists such as Miguel, Khalid and Lil Wayne. “He would really bring this understanding of this world. He’s one of the originators of the current Atlanta sound,” says X, 42.
It helped that Future is from Atlanta, where this remix of “Superfly” takes place. Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic Everett CollectionĮnter hip-hop star Future, who came to mind after X shot a Gap commercial featuring the trap rapper and Cher last year. “So I wanted someone who could play the Curtis Mayfield role, not to re-create records from the original soundtrack but to have an artistic vision for the music, bring an understanding of the world and be a name that we could put on a poster.” Music-video auteur Director X has remade Gordon Parks Jr.’s iconic flick. It’s what’s really kept the legend of the film alive,” says X (real name: Julien Lutz), who came to the project with his own background in music as a sought-after hip-hop and R&B video director for everyone from Drake and Kendrick Lamar to Rihanna. “The music has lived on past the film as a classic album. No doubt, the ghost of the Curtis Mayfield soundtrack - one of the defining R&B albums of the ’70s - looms large.
For his new remake of the 1972 blaxploitation classic “Superfly,” Director X knew the music was going to have to live up to that title.
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