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19.04 / 17:01
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The Color Purple Movie Musical Casts Grammy Winner Jon Batiste
Recent Grammy Award winner, Jon Batiste, is set to star in the forthcoming musical remake of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Walker, The Color Purple. Batiste will join a cast that includes the Oscar-nominated star of King Richard, Aunjanue Ellis, along with Taraji P. Henson, Fantasia Barrino, Danielle Brooks, Corey Hawkins, David Alan Grier, Halle Bailey, and R&B singer H.E.R. Based on the 2005 Tony Award-winning musical and directed by Blitz Bazawule (Black is King), the story of The Color Purple is set in the early 1900s and revolves around Celie, a poor African American woman living in the South who, after years of abuse at the hands of her father and many others, has to find her way to self-love and acceptance. The film will mark the second feature adaptation of the novel after the 1985 version, which was helmed by Steven Spielberg.
