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A Soldier’s Play <\/em>will be adapted into a limited series starring Tony nominee, for his role in the play,\u00a0David Alan Grier<\/a>. Grier will also serve as executive producer on the project with Sony Pictures TV<\/a>. The limited series will be titled, A Soldier’s Story.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deadline reports<\/a>:<\/strong> The series adaptation, spanning multiple wars and several decades, will center on Sgt. Vernon Waters and the emotional impact he is subjected to as a soldier in the 1940s. Grier, who plays Sgt. Waters in the play, will play the character\u2019s father in the limited series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Pulitzer-winning\u00a0A Soldier\u2019s Play<\/em>, written by Charles Fuller, is set at a Black army base in the segregated Louisiana of 1944. Sergeant Waters \u2013 played on Broadway by Grier in a production directed by Kenny Leon \u2013 has been murdered, and Army captain Davenport \u2013 played by Blair Underwood \u2013 arrives at the base to investigate the crime, which might or might not involve the local KKK or even the many Black soldiers who openly despite their hated sergeant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bernie Cahill and Jon Kanak of Activist Artists Management, along with Grier, approached Sony about turning\u00a0A Soldier\u2019s Play<\/em>\u00a0into a limited series. The trio are executive producing alongside Fuller. Search is underway for a writer on the project which will be taken out soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The play was first produced Off Broadway in 1981 by the Negro Ensemble Company in a staging that included young Denzel Washington and Samuel L. Jackson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Soldier\u2019s Play<\/em> was adapted to the big screen with the 1984 film, also titled A Soldier\u2019s Story,<\/em> which was produced by Sony Pictures TV sibling Columbia Pictures. It was directed by Norman Jewison from a script by Fuller and starred Gier in a different role, one of the young soldiers in the murdered sergeant\u2019s company, as well as Adolph Caesar as Sergeant Waters and Denzel Washington, both reprising their roles from the staging. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, Best Pictures, Best Adapted Screenplay for Fuller and Best Supporting Actor for Caesar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The play finally made its Broadway debut in the recent Roundabout Theater Company production, beginning previews on Dec. 27, 2019, with an official opening on Jan. 21, 2020. A Soldier\u2019s Play<\/em> gave its final performance on March 11, 2020, closing along with the rest of Broadway due to the Covid shutdown. Its seven Tony Award nominations include Best Revival of a Play, Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play (Underwood) and Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play (Grier).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his review of the play, Deadline\u2019s Greg Evans<\/a> wrote that \u201cGrier, in the role that made a star of the Negro Ensemble Company\u2019s Adolph Caesar (who reprised the role for the film, earning an Oscar nomination), adds the occasional and unexpected hint of humor to the villainous Waters, but it\u2019s a humor tinged with resentment and rage.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This marks Grier\u2019s fourth Tony nomination. He was previously nominated for Best Performance by a Featured Actor for\u00a0The First, Race<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Porgy and Bess.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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