Award winning director, Antoine Fuqua, is set to direct Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with an all Black cast and production team. Variety reported the new yesterday. The film is an adaptation of Tennessee William’s Pulitzer Prize winning play of the same name. Fuqua will also be producing the film alongside successful theater producers Stephen C. Byrd and Alia Jones-Harvey. Both Byrd and Harvey were responsible for the history making resurrection of the play in 2008. The show ran for a record breaking 19 sold-out weeks as the first all Black production on Broadway. Antoine Fuqua Cat Roof
From Variety, the movie is said it “will combine elements of the play with new storylines and weave them together to bring the production to the big screen.” Fuqua will produce via his production company, Fuqua Films, and Byrd and Jones-Harvey will produce through their Front Row Productions.”
Long time stage producing duo, Byrd and Jones-Harvey have worked together on numerous hit plays with star-studded casts. They include; A Streetcar Named Desire starring Blair Underwood, Nicole Ari Parker, and Wood Harris, The Trip to Bountiful with Cuba Gooding Jr., Vanessa Williams and the late Cicely Tyson, and American Son featuring Kerri Washington and Steven Pasquale, which went on to be adapted for Netflix. Most recently the duo produced the Broadway hit Ain’t Too Proud — The Life and Times of The Temptations. Upcoming the two will produce musical biopic’s on Bob Marley and Michael Jackson. Get Up, Stand Up will premier on London’s West End this fall and MJ: The Michael Jackson Musical on Broadway in January 2022. Byrd and Jones-Harvey are also developing the Oscar-winning Brazilian film Black Orpheus for Broadway. In a statement quoted by Variety the two said:
“We set out to produce groundbreaking, high caliber work on both Broadway and London’s West End with iconic plays, and now we hope to replicate this with ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ as a film,” said Byrd and Jones-Harvey in a statement. ”We are thrilled to be able to bring this Tennessee Williams classic play to life once again in a new iteration with the acclaimed Antoine Fuqua at the helm.”
Antoine Fuqua is the eye behind the critically acclaimed Denzel Washington hits Training Day, The Equalizer and The Magnificent Seven. He’s also responsible for documentaries The Day that Sports Stood Still he directed and What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali. Up next, Fuqua is set to direct the mark Wahlberg led Infinite from Paramount and Emancipation starring Will Smith.
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