The soap opera/musical (or hip-hopera, if you will) began as videos to accompany songs from the album “TP.3 Reloaded” and were then released on DVD and premiered on IFC. The last chapter, No. 22, was released in 2007.
In December, the musician told TMZ he had 32 new chapters that he was “trying to put out.” In an announcement this week, R. Kelly said, “The Alien is back and It has brought friends along.”
(He’s referred to his creation this way before: “It’s an alien. People ask me why is it an alien and I say it’s come down to show us new genres and new ways to produce movies, magic, song and dialogue which have all been put together, and has never been done as far as I’m concerned.”)
For the next chapters, Kelly is teaming up with IFC again. He said in a statement Wednesday: "The Alien is back and It has brought friends along."
"When I first began experiencing the unknown journey of writing `Trapped in the Closet,' I knew after the first chapter that I had tapped into something that was not of this earth," he said. "'Trapped in the Closet' fans put on your seatbelts `cause `Trapped in the Closet' is coming to take you away."
Ann Carli, the producer of "Trapped," said filming for the new chapters will begin in Chicago in the spring and be out by the fall, along with new characters.
"You'll see pretty much most of the main characters back, and you'll find out pretty early on what the package is, and whose got the package," said Carli, referring to the cliffhanger of the last chapter.
Carli said in a phone interview Wednesday that the series almost didn't get made. When Kelly presented his 16-minute "Trapped" song to his Jive record company at the time, the label didn't know what to do with it, Carli said.
She pushed to make a series of videos like a movie to accompany it, and the song and the videos became a sensation.
In December, the musician told TMZ he had 32 new chapters that he was “trying to put out.” In an announcement this week, R. Kelly said, “The Alien is back and It has brought friends along.”
(He’s referred to his creation this way before: “It’s an alien. People ask me why is it an alien and I say it’s come down to show us new genres and new ways to produce movies, magic, song and dialogue which have all been put together, and has never been done as far as I’m concerned.”)
For the next chapters, Kelly is teaming up with IFC again. He said in a statement Wednesday: "The Alien is back and It has brought friends along."
"When I first began experiencing the unknown journey of writing `Trapped in the Closet,' I knew after the first chapter that I had tapped into something that was not of this earth," he said. "'Trapped in the Closet' fans put on your seatbelts `cause `Trapped in the Closet' is coming to take you away."
Ann Carli, the producer of "Trapped," said filming for the new chapters will begin in Chicago in the spring and be out by the fall, along with new characters.
"You'll see pretty much most of the main characters back, and you'll find out pretty early on what the package is, and whose got the package," said Carli, referring to the cliffhanger of the last chapter.
Carli said in a phone interview Wednesday that the series almost didn't get made. When Kelly presented his 16-minute "Trapped" song to his Jive record company at the time, the label didn't know what to do with it, Carli said.
She pushed to make a series of videos like a movie to accompany it, and the song and the videos became a sensation.
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