A big screen adaptation of the musical version of “The Color Purple” has been in the works for a number of years now.
In 2018, two key names from the 1985 feature film joined forces with the creative minds behind the 2005 Broadway musical when Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Scott Sanders, and Quincy Jones announced that they would be producing a new musical film based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the struggles of a Black woman from the American South in the early 20th century.Two years later, fresh off his acclaimed collaboration with Beyoncé for the Disney+ visual album “Black is…The post Jon Batiste to Make Acting Debut in The Color Purple Movie Musical appeared first on /Film.
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