The long-awaited trailer for The Shade Purple musical has arrived.
On Might 23, Warner Bros debuted the official trailer for the brand new and authorised adaptation of the Alice Walker novel, which impressed the 1985 award-winning movie directed by Steven Speilberg.
Blitz Bazawule, recognized for his directorial work on movies equivalent to The Burial of Kojo and Beyoncé’s gorgeous visible album, Black is King, directed the daring revamp of the traditional story.
The brief trailer provides viewers a glimpse of the movie’s star-studded forged. Halle Bailey makes her debut as Nettie, the sister of the movie’s foremost character Celie, performed by award-winning singer and Broadway star Fantasia Barrino. Additional alongside within the trailer, followers see Taraji P. Henson shine because the sassy Jazz singer Shug Avery whereas Danielle Brooks makes her highly-anticipated debut as Sophia.
The all-star forged consists of heavy hitters Colman Domingo, Louis Gossett Jr., Corey Hawkins, David Alan Grier, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, H.E.R., Ciara, Jon Batiste and Deon Cole.
In a press release, Oprah Winfrey, who starred as Sofia within the 1985 film reverse Whoopi Goldberg as Celie, gushed about being one of many producers behind the beloved venture.
“The rationale this second is so necessary is as a result of for so long as there’s a want for self-discovery, self-empowerment, so long as there’s a want for victory in somebody’s life, so long as there’s a want for folks to know what it feels prefer to be beloved up and to be made full and entire by means of any individual else’s love, there might be a necessity for The Shade Purple,” the TV titan mentioned.
Winfrey, 69, added, “We have now our iteration now popping out on December 25. I consider that sooner or later, this story simply grows, and it by no means grows previous. I imply, this story not solely nonetheless resonates nearly 40 years later, however it’s a narrative that we revisit, we quote, we speak about. It’s part of our day by day lives as if it simply got here out yesterday.”
The Shade Purple will hit theaters December 25. Watch the total trailer for the Blitz Bazawule-directed musical beneath.
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