Lifetime To Remake Steel Magnolias With All Of-Black Cast

EXCLUSIVE: The 1989 film Steel Magnolias gets a modern day remake by having an all-black cast. Lifetime is developing an authentic movie in line with the hit feature, which is created by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron and The new sony Pictures TV, in which the duo’s Story Entertainment comes with an exclusive deal for event lengthy-form programming. Kenny Leon, who directed Story/SPT’s previous collaboration, the 2008 ABC movie A Raisin Under The Sun, is mounted on direct the brand new Steel Magnolias, which, such as the movie, is going to be occur Louisiana and explore the text among several women in our day. Both Lifetime’s Steel Magnolias and ABC’s A Raisin Under The Sun derive from qualities that span a famous play along with a feature. But as the Emmy-nominated Raisin Under the sun took it's origin from Lorraine Hansberry’s play (whose 2004 Broadway revival Leon directed),Steel Magnolias, composed by Sally Robinson (Iron Jawed Angels), is definitely an adaptation from the script for that movie, that was compiled by Robert Harling according to his play. The feature boasted an exciting-star cast of Sally Area, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Darryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, and Jennifer Aniston. The aim of the television movie’s producers would be to assemble a similarly high-wattage cast of black stars. The film, stated to become a passion project of Lifetime leader Nancy Dubuc and EVP Programming Robert Sharenow, is not greenlighted but is on the steps for success, with a few preliminary focus on casting options for that leads likely to begin soon. Additionally to some Raisin Under The Sun, which starred Sean Hair combs, Phylicia Rashad, Audra McDonald and Sanaa Lathan, Leon also directed happens productions of Fences starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, and many lately The Mountaintop with Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett. Zadan and Meron are executive creating the midseason NBC series Smash and Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva, that was lately restored for any 4th season. Furthermore, the duo is creating Vital’s Footloose remake that opens in a few days and also the Broadway manufacture of How To Achieve Business Without Really Trying starring Daniel Radcliffe, who definitely are been successful the coming year by Glee‘s Darren Criss and Nick Jonas. Steel Magnolias isn't the first classic American literary property obtain an African-American transformation: L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz created the musical The Wiz, while Darlene Allen directed a Broadway manufacture of Tennessee Williams’ Cat On The Hot Container Roof by having an all-black cast. (Leon have been mounted on that project at some point.)