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Steven Spielberg, Oprah Producing ‘The Color Purple’ Musical for WB
Collider ^ | November 2, 2018 | Jeff Sneider

Posted on 11/03/2018 1:37:41 PM PDT by EdnaMode

Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Quincy Jones and Broadway veteran Scott Sanders are set to produce a new film version of The Color Purple that Warner Bros. will develop as a feature adaptation of the acclaimed musical, Collider has exclusively learned.

Spielberg famously directed the 1985 adaptation of Alice Walker‘s 1982 novel, which won a Pulitzer Prize, making its author the first black woman to win the Pulitzer for fiction. The original Broadway production of The Color Purple ran from 2005 to 2008, earning 11 Tony Award nominations in 2006. A Broadway revival opened in late 2015 and ran through early 2017, winning two Tony Awards in 2016. The musical featured a book by Marsha Norman and music and lyrics by Stephen Bray, Brenda Russell and Alee Willis. The musical has grossed more than $350 million, and half of that figure comes from black audiences, who turned out in record numbers.

The Color Purple follows the journey of Celie, an African-American woman in the deep South from the early to mid-20th century. Celie struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her stepfather, husband, and others over the course of four decades. The film starred Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Margaret Avery and a young Oprah. All three actresses earned Oscar nominations, and the film itself was also nominated for Best Picture. Jones also picked up a pair of nominations for the film’s original score and the original song “Miss Celie’s Blues (Sister),” the latter of which he co-wrote with Rod Temperton and Lionel Richie. Goldberg even won a Golden Globe for her powerful lead performance.

Cynthia Erivo (Bad Times at the El Royale) starred in the 2016 Broadway revival and won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, but it hasn’t been decided whether she’ll reprise her role on the big screen, as casting has yet to begin. In fact, the project doesn’t even have a writer yet, as it’s still in the early stages of development.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: colorpurple; oprah; spielberg; thecolorpurple
A movie adaptation of the Broadway revival based on a movie based on a book. Hollywood loves their remakes. :D
1 posted on 11/03/2018 1:37:41 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

How wonderful. Sorry, but I don’t go watch woe is poor wittle me movies.


2 posted on 11/03/2018 1:44:56 PM PDT by I want the USA back (It's Ok To Be White. White Lives Matter. White Guilt is Socially Constructed)
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To: EdnaMode
That ought to go over big.

/s

3 posted on 11/03/2018 1:47:24 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: EdnaMode

Will it be starring Oprah Jimfrey?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1By6Wj_sAU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1TQP9gjtZs

Staring blackface Jimmy Kimmel


4 posted on 11/03/2018 1:57:18 PM PDT by boycott
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To: EdnaMode

Soundtrack will be all the Guy Formally Known As Prince songs? Purple Rain, Let’s Go Crazy, 1999, Little Red Corvette, etc.? Stevie Spielberg getting ready to cash in on a little more of that “cultural appropriation”.


5 posted on 11/03/2018 2:09:02 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: EdnaMode

That’s old


6 posted on 11/03/2018 2:10:06 PM PDT by EnquiringMind
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To: EdnaMode

They should rename it “Let’s Make Whites Feel Guilty One More Time.”


7 posted on 11/03/2018 2:37:23 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: EdnaMode
Mammy!...


8 posted on 11/03/2018 2:41:42 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: EdnaMode

BARF


9 posted on 11/03/2018 3:09:08 PM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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To: EdnaMode

A musical version of “ The Color Purple” , with perhaps some light hearted comedy thrown in

Let’s have Mel Brooks be a creative advisor


10 posted on 11/03/2018 3:37:45 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: All

The racist movies and entertainment need to stop. We’re way past the Color Purple and are no in need of repeating our repentance.


11 posted on 11/03/2018 4:42:13 PM PDT by veracious (UN=OIC=Islam ; Dems may change USAgov completely, just amend USConstitution)
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To: EdnaMode

Outsource it to India. Bollywood has made more musicals than Hollywood has in the last 40 years.


12 posted on 11/03/2018 9:10:41 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

starring Tyler Perry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaA9elSYnpQ


13 posted on 11/03/2018 9:14:11 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: EdnaMode

>>The film starred Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Margaret Avery and a young Oprah.

Whoopi Goldberg Born: November 13, 1955
Danny Glover Born: July 22, 1946
Oprah Winfrey Born: January 29, 1954


so why doesn’t it say “starring a young Whoopi”?


14 posted on 11/03/2018 9:17:35 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: EdnaMode

Spielberg has not made a good movie since Indiana Jones 1 and 3


15 posted on 11/04/2018 11:23:59 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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