Singer-songwriter Fantasia Barrino will make her characteristic movie debut in The Colour Purple film musical.
Barrino, who grew to fame because the winner of the third season of American Idol, is in ultimate negotiations to play Celie, a job that she performed onstage on Broadway in 2007 and for which earned rave critiques. Whoopi Goldberg performed the position in Steven Spielberg’s dramatic model of The Colour Purple in 1985.
Warner Bros. is behind the characteristic adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical, itself an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel by Alice Walker, on which the Oscar-nominated Steven Spielberg-directed 1985 film was primarily based. The story facilities on a girl named Celie Harris and tracks her life-long struggles as an African American lady dwelling within the South through the early 1900s.
Barrino would be a part of a beforehand reported solid of Taraji P. Henson, Corey Hawkins and H.E.R., the latter making her characteristic movie debut within the manufacturing.
Blitz Bazawule, the filmmaker behind the Beyoncé-fronted Black Is King, is ready to direct the contemporary tackle the musical. Marcus Gardley penned the screenplay, tailored from Marsha Norman’s guide and Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray’s rating. The film is in pre-production with casting starting to return collectively and chemistry reads taking place now.
Oprah Winfrey, who had her characteristic performing debut in Spielberg’s The Colour Purple and earned an Oscar nomination, is producing through her Harpo Movies banner with Spielberg below his Amblin Leisure. Scott Sanders and Quincy Jones, each of whom have been behind the Broadway musical, will even produce. Walker, Rebecca Walker, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Carla Gardini, Adam Fell, and Mara Jacobs government producing.
Warners has set a launch date of December 20, 2023.
Burrino, who has received three Grammys and earned 12 nominations for her recording work since 2006, is repped by ICM Companions.