The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Tyler Perry about to start shooting next Netflix project
Prolific Tyler Perry will be portraying Madea for a 12th movie in an upcoming Netflix project “Madea’s Destination Wedding.”
The film is scheduled to shoot between Monday and Jan. 26 in Atlanta at Tyler Perry Studios with additional shooting dates in the Dominican Republic.
The first 10 films that featured Madea were released in movie theaters through Lionsgate between 2005 (“Diary of a Mad Black Woman”) and 2019 (“A Madea Family Funeral”), generating more than $600 million in domestic revenue in movie theaters. The 11th, “A Madea Homecoming,” did well on Netflix in 2022, topping the Netflix global charts when it first came out.
The latest Madea movie is about Madea’s young granddaughter, Tiffany, who introduces her new boyfriend Zavier to her family and drops the shocking news that the couple is holding a destination wedding in the Bahamas. Despite her mother Debrah appearing to have everything under control, the vacation hits turbulence.
According to a film synopsis, Madea isn’t ready to leave the country; Brian doesn’t approve of his daughter’s hasty wedding or her immature fiancé; Tiffany starts to doubt Zavier; and Debrah begins to act out of character. The whole wedding smells suspicious, and all Brian wants to know is whether or not this marriage is really all that it seems.
Perry’s next Netflix movie set to come out later this year is a legal drama “Mea Culpa” starring Kelly Rowland about a criminal defense attorney who takes on the case of an artist who may or may not have murdered his girlfriend. A specific date has not been released.
This will be followed by Perry’s “Six Triple Eight” with a cast led by Kerry Washington, which tells the true story of the the first and only Women’s Army Corp unit of color to be stationed overseas during World War II.