August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Piano Lesson is set to be made into a Netflix movie, starring Samuel L. Jackson and John David Washington, after completing a successful Broadway revival with Danielle Brooks. The film also follows the Netflix adaptation of another August Wilson play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, starring Viola Davis, who also starred alongside John David Washington’s father, Denzel Washington, in a film adaptation of another Wilson play, Fences. Denzel Washington and Davis also starred in the 2020 Netflix documentary Giving Voice, which explored Wilson’s legacy as a playwright.
Broadway Play Into A Movie- The Piano Lesson
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Denzel’s son, Malcolm Washington, will direct the film adaptation of The Piano Lesson, based on a screenplay he co-wrote with Virgil Williams. Denzel Washington will produce the film with Todd Black. The film adaptation of The Piano Lesson follows LaTanya Richardson Jackson, who directs her husband Samuel L. Jackson on Broadway opposite Brooks and John David Washington in Wilson’s stage drama about African Americans grappling with painful pasts. (Hollywood reporter)
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The film adaptation includes Ray Fisher, Till actress Danielle Deadwyler, Michael Potts, and Corey Hawkins. Set in 1936 in Pittsburgh after the Great Depression, The Piano Lesson follows the life of the Charles family in the home of Doaker Charles and an heirloom, the family piano, decorated with designs carved by an enslaved ancestor and polished with tears. and the blood of his late mother. (Hollywood reporter)
The Piano Lesson includes Fences and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, with the Netflix film adaptation of the latter receiving five Oscar nominations and two awards: Best Make-Up and Hairstyling, and Best Costume Design.