Taraji P. Henson is including to her busy slate. In keeping with Selection, the Oscar nominated actress is ready to star as Shug Avery in Warner Bros.’ beforehand introduced new adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical “The Colour Purple,” an adaptation itself of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Blitz Bazawule (“The Burial of Kojo,” “Black is King”) is ready to direct, whereas Marcus Gardley’s (“The Chi”) screenplay attracts from Walker’s novel, Steven Spielberg’s 1985 movie model, and the stage musical.
“The Colour Purple” charts 40 years within the lifetime of an African-American girl, Celie, documenting her traumas, progress, and bravado — when Shug comes into her life, she turns into a confidant and supply of energy to the opposite girl. The position of Shug was beforehand portrayed by Margaret Avery in Spielberg’s 1985 movie, and Jennifer Hudson, Michelle Williams, Heather Headley, Elisabeth Withers, Angela Robinson and Nicola Hughes in productions of the stage musical. Henson joins Corey Hawkins (“Within the Heights”) and Oscar- and Grammy-winning artist H.E.R. among the many forged — casting for the position of Celie has not but been introduced.
Producers on the mission embrace Oprah Winfrey, who joins underneath her Harpo Movies banner, Spielberg, and Scott Sanders and Quincy Jones, each of whom produced the Broadway musical. Alice Walker herself is among the many movie’s exec producers.
Henson’s most up-to-date roles embrace musical particular “Annie Reside.” The “Empire” alum was nominated for an Oscar for her supporting position in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and went on to star in “Individual of Curiosity,” “Hidden Figures,” and “Proud Mary.” In 2020, she launched her personal manufacturing firm, TPH Leisure, underneath whose banner she is producing initiatives similar to fantasy graphic novel adaptation “Sorcerority.”
Walker grew to become the primary African-American girl to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded in 1982 for “The Colour Purple.” An writer of novels, quick tales, and poetry, her different works embrace “In Love & Bother,” “The Third Lifetime of Grange Copeland,” and poetry assortment “As soon as.” She was the topic of documentary movie “Magnificence in Reality,” from director Pratibha Parmar.
Supply: Women And Hollywood
