My biggest concern if you want to call it that is that it would immediately and rather cynically be written off as just another "white savior narrative" a la the movie The Blind Side (which is also about a ne'er do well white family "rescuing" a poor, virtually orphaned black kid).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_savior_narrative_in_film
https://www.google.com/#q=white+savior+the+blind+side
You would have to made it edgy in some way. For the time DS was made it was a different topic.
So today you would need to mix it up...
1/ Wealthy Muslim man/woman adopts 2 non Muslim kids, maybe even Jewish ones.
2/ Wealthy Black man/woman adopts 2 poor white kids.
The problem of course is the kids wouldn't be able to make any racial comparisons because now they wouldn't be black.
Sometimes a movie or tv show plot is so stupid that only the stupid can understand it.
Nah, you keep Mr. D a white guy, but make him particularly clueless so he can be whitesplained to. The kids you definitely make muslim, so they have to teach Mr. D all about prayer rugs and haram and stuff he doesn't know (he's so ignorant) and they have to put Kimberly and the maids in burkas.
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Kimberly in a burqa until it comes time for her to educate the boys in "marital matters" anyway.
Sometimes a movie or tv show plot is so stupid that only the stupid can understand it.
Only the World Trade Centre (Twin Towers) wouldn't be there....9/11, you know, show aired 70s-early 80s.(?) And of course a different cast. [[blah]]
shareIf they had a Mr Horton episode---Mr Horton gets gasoline poured on him and match lit while audience is clapping and laughing
Which would have made a lot of sense.
Because the kids instead of going to the cops they posted all the details on facebook, twitter etc.
shareThe maid would either be hispanic or oriental. No white maid even if Drummond pays well.
The kids would be too smart to constantly get molested/kidnapped, ads would be EVERYWHERE on social media telling them not to do stuff like hitch hike, take rides from strangers---when they have a limo and enough money to take public transit too.
Actually, they would take off to meet someone they met online who promised them video games or something like that.
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Let’s hope not.
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