Plans for the Netflix drama follow Jackson and Washington wrapping a Broadway revival for August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play about African Americans wrestling with the painful past.
, based on a screenplay he penned with Virgil Williams. Denzel Washington will produce the film along with Todd Black.screen adaptation follows LaTanya Richardson Jackson directing her husband, Samuel L. Jackson, as he starred on Broadway opposite Brooks and John David Washington in Wilson’s stage drama about African Americans wrestling with the painful past.
actress Danielle Deadwyler, Michael Potts and Corey Hawkins. Set in 1936 Pittsburgh during the aftermath of the Great Depression,follows the lives of the Charles family in the Doaker Charles household and an heirloom, the family piano, which is decorated with designs carved by an enslaved ancestor and polished with the tears and blood of their late mother.on Broadway.
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