🎶 2022-04-15 22:33:00 – Paris/France.
After his five Grammy wins, including album of the year this month, Oscar winner Jon Batiste has joined the remake of The Color Purple, whose producers include Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey and Quincy Jones.
Batiste, who was conductor and musical director on The Late Show with Stephane Colbert since launching in 2015, will make his big-screen acting debut as Grady, a debonair, mellow pianist who is the epitome of charm and eloquence and the husband of Shug Avery (Taraji P. Henson). Bennet Guillory played the role in the 1985 feature film.
New Orleans-born Batiste is a Juilliard School alum who last year won an Oscar for original music and a BAFTA award for Soul, shared with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. In addition to his Grammy two weeks ago – including the coveted Album of the Year award for We are, he has been nominated 14 times by the Recording Academy since 2019. He is expected to hold a series of several concerts at Carnegie Hall this year.
Bazawule Blitz (Black is king) directs the Warner Bros musical, based on the Tony-winning Broadway show, from a screenplay by Marcus Gardley based on the novel by Alice Walker. Scott Sanders is also a producer, alongside Spielberg, who directed and produced the original film; Winfrey, who co-starred there; and Jones, who was also a producer in the first photo. Walker, Rebecca Walker, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Carla Gardini and Mara Jacobs are executive producers.
The original Broadway musical debuted in 2005, earning 11 Tony Award nominations in 2006 and winning for the role of LaChanze as Celie. It ran for 910 performances. A 2015 revival scored four more Tony names and won Best Revival of a Musical and Cynthia Erivo in its Broadway debut. The musical also won Grammy and Emmy awards.
Batiste is replaced by CAA and attorneys Dan Shulman and Evan Krauss at Eisner LLP.
SOURCE: Reviews News
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