Viola Davis & Lupita Nyong’o Team Up For African Adventure Movie

Viola Davis and Lupita Nyong’o side by side in the same movie?

It’s happening.

Awesome news below…

The African stars are to join forces to create The Woman King‘, a movie based on the true story of a mother and daughter duo who fought the French to protect their people from the horrors of slavery.

Producing the project? Davis’ JuVee Productions (co-founded by her husband Julius and also home to ‘Lila and Eve’) and Cathy Schulman of Welle Entertainment.

She told ‘Deadline’….

Black Panther just showed us how the power of imagination and lore could reveal a world without gender and racial stereotypes. The Woman Kingwill tell one of history’s greatest forgotten stories from the real world in which we live, where an army of African warrior women staved off slavery, colonialism and inter-tribal warfare to unify a nation.

 

Tristar will release the picture.

A premiere date is yet to be set.

Your thoughts?

 

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  1. Brent Christopher March 2, 2018

    This film will not do well commercially. People are truly missing the mark in comparing the ultra success of BLACK PANTHER with just “any project” focusing on black people. Not even our people are going to turn out in drive numbers for a project of this magnitude — despite Viola & Lupita’s names. The truth is the truth. BLACK PANTHER won because it was a FIRST and also still an action, superhero film. The projects that now Michael B. Jordan & Lupita are tossing out there are historical projects that simply will not pull in big commercial numbers. I appreciate the effort, but the execution absolutely will not match Black Panther or anything close to it.

    • Teflon Boy March 2, 2018

      Been reading the tea leaves again bro? You can’t predict the future, so there is no justification for such bold predictions.

  2. March 2, 2018

    Nice I’m wishing them all the best.

  3. The Wig Snatcher March 2, 2018

    Come thru, Queens!!!

  4. Danyboo March 2, 2018

    This is a movie they should really put Monique in. Her life mirrors the description so very well. #Monique #for #the #Woman #king

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