{"id":63047,"date":"2012-03-28T10:10:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T10:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2012\/03\/28\/kasi-lemmons-to-write-direct-on-beauty\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T13:47:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T13:47:33","slug":"kasi-lemmons-to-write-direct-on-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/kasi-lemmons-to-write-direct-on-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Kasi Lemmons To Write, Direct ‘On Beauty’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kasi Lemmons To Write, Direct ‘On Beauty’<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

March 28, 2012<\/p>\n

Source: Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n

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Eve\u2019s Bayou<\/strong> helmer Kasi Lemmons<\/strong> has been set to adapt and direct On Beauty<\/strong>, based on the Booker Prize-nominated novel by Zadie Smith<\/strong>. The film will be developed as a co-production between Carol Polakoff Productions, Ruby Films and Film4.<\/p>\n

The book is an academic comedy of manners, focusing on the story of two families with different but increasingly intertwined lives, race and sexual politics. It\u2019s been called a modern day Howard\u2019s End, which was an inspiration for the author. Alison Owen<\/strong> and Paul Trijbits<\/strong> of Ruby Films are producing with Carol Polakoff<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Lemmons, who started as an actress (she played Clarice Starling\u2019s classmate at the FBI Academy in The<\/strong> Silence of the Lambs<\/strong>) and has also directed Talk To Me<\/strong> with Don Cheadle<\/strong> and Chiwetel Ejoifor<\/strong>, and The Caveman\u2019s Valentine<\/strong> with Samuel L. Jackson<\/strong>. She\u2019s developing at Fox Searchlight an adapatation of Langston Hughes<\/strong>\u2019s gospel song play adaptation Black Nativity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

On Beauty is part of a slate put together by New York-based Polakoff that includes Waiting For Bardot, based on the Andy Martin novel, with Will Frears directing a script he wrote with Andrew O\u2019Hagan, and Freddie Highmore in talks to star; The Great Cyberheist, based on a James Verini article in The New York Times which Polakoff is producing with Quadrant Pictures\u2019 Doug Davison; the Eran Riklis-directed Secret Sky and an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning book American Prometheus. Polakoff, who came up the ranks as a journalist, is financing the development of her projects through a consortium of US and European-based private investors.<\/p>\n

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