Given that, the only possible way you could move forward with that core conflict would be to wrap it in something forbidden – but in this day and age of Ellen, Neil Patrick Harris, and marriage equality, its nearly impossible to think of something forbidden enough to drive the conflict. They could make it a bi-racial celebrity romance…set in the 50\’s perhaps. But that same story updated to 2016 is just going to get a yawn.

Warner Bros should dump this and move those same elements over to a remake of "The Bodyguard", which makes far more sense and has far more potential as a culturally relevant property.