Antoine Fuqua to direct film adaptation of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
UPI News Service, 04/21/2021
Filmmaker Antoine Fuqua is set to direct a film adaptation of Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with an all-African American cast.
ADVERTISEMENT The new film is based on a 2008 Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof from producers Stephen C. Byrd and Alia Jones-Harvey that featured an all-African American cast and was sold out during its 19-week run on Broadway.
Fuqua is also producing the film through his company Fuqua Films. Byrd and Jones-Harvey are producing through their company Front Row Productions.
The Magnificent Seven, and
The Equalizer. But soon he’ll be heading into prestige drama territory with a new adaptation of
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, based on the classic Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tennessee Williams. And we already have a good idea about how this take on the story will be different.
Variety has the news about Antoine Fuqua directing a
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof remake. The play was famously turned into a film back in 1958 with Richard Brooks directing and Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor starring. The classic film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography. However, this new version will likely follow in the footsteps of a recent 2008 stage revival of the play.
Training Day, but Antoine Fuqua has a new version of a classic story in his crosshairs. He ll direct a fresh adaptation of Tennessee Williams
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.
Williams play focuses on Brick, a former athlete turned alcoholic, his sexually-frustrated wife Maggie and Big Daddy, the ailing and wealthy family patriarch.
Fuqua will work alongside producers Stephen C. Byrd and Alia Jones-Harvey, who backed a 2008 revival of the show, one that made history as the first Broadway production with an entirely African-American cast. It was the highest-grossing play that season and ended up transferring to the West End here in the UK.
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