Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman and Denzel Washington have linked arms to build a fascinating movie for Netflix.
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‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom‘ will make its way to Netflix in the coming month and is a movie adaptation of the August Wilson release of the same name.
Production kicks off in Pittsburgh in July and will see Denzel stand as producer while Davis and Boseman will stun on screen as characters from the story.
When Ma Rainey, the “Queen of the Blues,” makes a record in a studio in Chicago, 1927, tensions boil between her, her white agent and producer, and bandmates.
Stay tuned for a release date.
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Viola keeps choosing projects that have very little potential to gain commercial success. Aside from HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER, FENCES and that action franchise film she had a part in, she keeps attaching her name to conventionally good historical IDEAS that then don’t translate well otherwise. She has some crap coming with Lupita Nyongo & a slew of other period like, race projects that don’t need to be done. There’s a way of using your power and influence to create content that is contemporary, insightful & commercially viable. I just wish she stop digging so deep into the past to tell these miserable, “issa so broke massa”, “we wassa po famiky onna plantation” type stories. GIVE IT A REST! She is an incredible actress & one of the few of our community who actually commands a screen. I’m just DONE with the black history month type films & tv creations. UGH!
well get over it. It’s people like you that obviously need to watch the movies she is making. Its not about being poor or living on a plantation. Its about teaching history and showing the injustices faced by our people on multiple levels. not just slavery, but in business, in the home, schooling, in life in general. She chooses to shine a light on those things, but she also does very commercially viable projects. Thankfully she is at a point in her career when she can pick and choose. Just respect her hustle and artistry and let her tell the stories she wants to tell and you can consume the ones you want to consume.
I suppose I did not express myself CLEARLY.
She has to find a way to tell these stories in a commercially viable way — therefore reaching mass audiences & viewers who will receive the stories.
When you keep focusing on projects that only have a niche audience, THE PEOPLE WHO NEED TO SEE THE PROJECTS, aren’t ever going to be introduced to them.
The messages of our history, language, culture, ideas & creations being robbed from us DO NOT have to continuously be told from the perspective of a period setting.
Look at how POSE does a remarkable job of unveiling LGBT heartache, but modernizing the presentation.
It is a WASTE to create content that isn’t widely seen. We don’t have the time or opportunities to deliver art house projects & NETWORK TJP456 television programs — material that only a 45-65 age group will delve into.