Barrino - who also played Celie on Broadway in 2016 - embodies the shy and abused character and Henson is seen wearing a red dress almost identical to that of the one Shug Avery wore as she performed in a juke joint. The trailer brings back memories of the 1986 film as you see younger Nettie and Celie playing together in rural Georgia. (Photo by Greg Doherty/WireImage) (2023 WireImage) Pictures Studio presentation during CinemaCon, the official convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners, at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on Apin Las Vegas, Nevada. Henson, Blitz Bazawule, Fantasia Barrino and Danielle Brooks attend the red carpet promoting the upcoming film "The Color Purple" during the Warner Bros. LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - APRIL 25: (L-R) Oprah Winfrey, Taraji P. as soften-spoken Squeak, Halle Bailey as the younger Nettie, singer Ciara as the adult Nettie, and award-winning Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor as Mama. Henson as the sassy Shug Avery, Colman Domingo as the mean Mister, Corey Hawkins as timid Harpo, singer H.E.R.
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The reprised movie presents “American Idol” winner Fantasia Barrino as the harrowing character Miss Celie, Phylicia Pearl Mpasi as young Celie, Danielle Brooks as the tough and unbossed Sofia, Taraji P. The film was also nominated for 11 Academy Awards but didn’t win any of them.
Goldberg received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress as a result of the memorable role and the film won an NAACP Image Award. Three years after the book - which was written by novelist Alice Walker - was originally published, Spielberg directed and produced a movie adaptation starring Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover and Laurence Fishburne, according to Variety. Set to premiere in the United States on Christmas Day, the film will debut internationally beginning Jan. movie musical by Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg. 20, 2023.īarrino, who has won three Grammys and earned 12 nominations for her recording work since 2006, is repped by ICM Partners.If you’re a fan of the classic film “The Color Purple,” you will love the new trailer for the Warner Bros. Alice Walker, Rebecca Walker, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Carla Gardini, Adam Fell and Mara Jacobs are executive producing. Scott Sanders and Quincy Jones, both of whom were behind the Broadway musical, will also produce. Winfrey, who made her own feature acting debut in Spielberg’s The Color Purple and earned an Oscar nomination, is producing via her Harpo Films banner with Spielberg and his Amblin Entertainment. The movie is in preproduction, with casting beginning to come together and chemistry reads happening now. Marcus Gardley penned the screenplay, adapted from Marsha Norman’s book and Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray’s score. Henson, Corey Hawkins and H.E.R., the latter also making her feature film debut in the production.īlitz Bazawule, the filmmaker behind the Beyoncé-fronted Black Is King, is set to direct the fresh take on the musical. The story centers on a woman named Celie Harris and tracks her lifelong struggles as an African American woman living in the South during the early 1900s.īarrino would join a previously reported cast of Taraji P. is behind the feature 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 movie was based. The latter announcement was made on ABC’s Soul of a Nation: Screen Queens Rising, with Oprah Winfrey surprising Brooks with the casting announcement in an emotional Zoom call.Įvents of the Week: Kering Foundation Dinner, 'The Continental' and More Peacemaker co-star Danielle Brooks has also joined the cast of the feature, playing the role of Sofia. Whoopi Goldberg played the role in Steven Spielberg’s dramatic version of The Color Purple in 1985. Singer-songwriter Fantasia Barrino will make her feature film debut in The Color Purple movie musical.īarrino, who rose to fame on the third season of American Idol, is in final negotiations to play Celie, a role that she played on Broadway in 2007 and for which she earned rave reviews.
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