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[Inori]

Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg are remaking The Color Purple as a musical....





Thoughts?

Sources:

A New Film Remake Of 'The Color Purple' Is In Development, This Time As A Musical — And Folks Are Divided - Blavity

The Color Purple is coming back. Warner Bros. is adapting the Broadway musical based on The Color Purple into a film , according to The Hollywood Reporter. Of course, the original 1985 film, based on the classic Alice Walker novel, was directed by Steven Spielberg and starred Whoopi Goldberg and...

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Oprah Winfrey & Steven Spielberg Teaming Up on Color Purple Movie Musical

Celie is headed back to the big screen, and this time she's singing out. Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg have announced the production of a …

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[DOS_patos]

saw the play on Broadway with fantasia....

shit was off the chain

 

[CeLLar-DooR]

Neither the book nor the movie are that good

 

[shutupGabi]

Didnt they already do that?

EDIT: nvm I was thinking of the play

 

[illestni99ainne]

This is a bad idea. It’s not gonna live up to the original. Leave the movie alone. If they wanna make a musical they need to take the lead from Hamilton and film the stage play with the original cast and put that out.

 

[Royal]

 

[Royal]

Oprah Winfrey Reveals the Glorious Cast of ‘The Color Purple’ Musical Film

Fantasia Taylor, Colman Domingo, Danielle Brooks, Halle Bailey, Corey Hawkins, H.E.R., and Taraji P. Henson will bring the Broadway show based on Alice Walker’s book to the big screen.

www.vanityfair.com

 

[Inori]

 

[Revolver Ocelot]

:smh:......do we really need for a musical number for "you told harpo to beat me"?

 

[IP360]

Musicals aren't my thing but props to them.

 

[Ethos]

saw the play on Broadway with fantasia....

shit was off the chain

First and only play I been to. Enjoyed it very much. My mom and sis dragged me there lol. Was considering going to see the MJ one but not sure if that over.

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Why?

 

[Infamous114]

 

[DMorgan]

ORIGINAL

NEW

My reaction

 

[DMorgan]

Would've made more sense to have Ciara play Shug Avery

 

[Infamous114]

 

[DOS_patos]

We really dont need this .

It has a buncha stereotypes that do not and should not be presented to this new generations.
Took me a while to understand what I was watching but then I got it

 

[MoeW]

 

[Inori]

im sick of fuckin remakes but im not too mad at this.

cast is solid

 

[g-dog-ona-flytip]

*sucks teeth*