The Fresh Prince is back and its heavy on the drama

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Things aren't all fuzzy dice for the Fresh Prince in Bel-Air, which explores the far more dramatic side of what happens when a young man born and raised on the streets of West Philadelphia is sent to live with his well-to-do uncle on the other side of the country. Everything is flipped, turned upside down in this genuinely great The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air fan trailer from writer and director Morgan Cooper. Starring Jerry Madison as Will, who gets sent to live with his uncle and cousins for a far more intense reason than a little schoolyard fight, this 100% looks like it's a real drama coming to theaters this fall.

Yup, no question, we would 100% watch that. And we are already prepared to start off hating Carlton, only to watch he and Will develop a mutual love and respect for each other over time, straight up to the point where their goodbye makes us cry. (Uh, not that happened with the original series...)
Why we care: Last year, SNL served up an extremely dark and gritty reinterpretation of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The digital short mixed ’90s nostalgia with some disturbing elements for a truly surreal throwback. But director and lifelong Fresh Prince superfan Morgan Cooper has something more ambitious in mind with his just-debuted tribute to the show.

Bel-Air is a fake trailer that heavily dramatizes the events of The Fresh Prince so convincingly, you could swear it was a real movie. This well-produced short cheekily uses all the tropes of a tear-jerking Oscar-contender, while breezing through a checklist of Fresh Prince lore. We see more of that “one little fight” that so scared Will’s mom on the series that she exiled him from West Philadelphia to Bel-Air. We witness the historic initial meeting between Will and his sidekick Jazz, portrayed as though it’s John Lennon meeting Paul McCartney for the first time in a Beatles biopic. We hear Carlton being a little prick. The only thing this otherwise perfect fake-trailer is missing is a joke about recasting Aunt Viv midway through.

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If you where feeling the song used in the trailer the video is linked below