Netflix Picks Up “Juanita,” Starring Alfre Woodard, Blair Underwood Posted by Wilson Morales
April 27, 2017
Source: Shadow and Act
Netflix has picked up the global rights to “Juanita,” starring Alfre Woodard, Blair Underwood, Adam Beach, LaTanya Richardson and Marcus Henderson (Get Out).
Clark Johnson (S.W.A.T) is directing from a script written by Roderick M. Spencer (Ms. Woodward’s husband)
Based on the novel “Dancing on the Edge of the Roof” by Sheila Williams, Woodard will play Juanita, a hard-working nursemaid from Columbus, Ohio, whose grown kids still depend on her for everything. Underwood appears as himself as a fantasy in her dreams — and when he asks for a loan, she hops on a Greyhound Bus and heads into the mountains of Montana, where she reinvents herself with a new job, a new circle of friends, and an unexpected new love.
The producers are Homegrown Pictures’ Stephanie Allain (“Dear White People”), Mandalay Pictures’ Jason Michael Berman (“The Birth of a Nation”), and Mel Jones (“Dear White People”). The trio worked with Woodard on the hazing drama “Burning Sands,” which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Woodard, Spencer, Johnson, and Caroline Connor are executive producers.
