Taraji P. Henson, Corey Hawkins and H.E.R. will star in a movie musical version of TheColorPurple from the director of Beyoncé's BlackisKing
Blitz Bazawule, the filmmaker behind the Beyonce-fronted, is directing the fresh take on the Broadway musical, which was an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel by Alice Walker, and on which the Oscar-nominatedThe story centers on a woman named Celie Harris and tracks her life-long struggles as an African American woman living in the South during the early 1900s.
Henson will play Shug Avery, a blues singer who has a reputation for being a “loose woman” in the town in which the story takes place.Marcus Gardley penned the screenplay, adapted from Marsha Norman’s book and Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray’s score.and earned an Oscar nomination, is producing via her Harpo Films banner with Spielberg as part of his Amblin Entertainment company. Scott Sanders and Quincy Jones, both of whom were behind the Broadway musical, will also produce.
Walker, Rebecca Walker, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Carla Gardini, Adam Fell and Mara Jacobs executive producing.What Men Want, Proud MaryThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
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