Lifetime To Remake Steel Magnolias Wonderful-Black Cast

EXCLUSIVE: The 1989 film Steel Magnolias will get an up to date remake by getting an exciting-black cast. Lifetime is developing a geniune movie good hit feature, that is produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron and also the new the new sony Pictures TV, where the duo’s Story Entertainment posseses an exclusive deal for event extended-form programming. Kenny Leon, who directed Story/SPT’s previous collaboration, the 2008 ABC movie A Raisin On The Planet, is installed on direct the completely new Steel Magnolias, which, like the movie, will probably be occur Louisiana and explore the written text among several women within our day. Both Lifetime’s Steel Magnolias and ABC’s A Raisin On The Planet be a consequence of characteristics that span a famous play together with an element. But because the Emmy-nominated Raisin On the planet required it's origin from Lorraine Hansberry’s play (whose 2004 Broadway revival Leon directed),Steel Magnolias, composed by Sally Robinson (Iron Jawed Angels), is certainly an adaptation in the script for your movie, which was put together by Robert Harling based on his play. The feature boasted a thrilling-star cast of Sally Area, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Darryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, and Jennifer Aniston. The goal from the television movie’s producers is always to assemble a similarly high-wattage cast of black stars. The film, mentioned to become passion project of Lifetime leader Nancy Dubuc and EVP Programming Robert Sharenow, isn't greenlighted but is around the steps for achievement, having a couple of preliminary concentrate on casting options for your leads prone to begin soon. Furthermore with a Raisin On The Planet, which starred Sean Hair hair combs, Phylicia Rashad, Audra McDonald and Sanaa Lathan, Leon also directed happens productions of Fences starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, and several recently 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, which was recently restored for just about any fourth season. In addition, the duo is creating Vital’s Footloose remake that opens inside a couple of days as well as the Broadway output of How You Can Achieve Business Without Really Trying starring Daniel Radcliffe, who certainly are been effective next season by Glee‘s Darren Criss and Nick Jonas. Steel Magnolias is not the very first classic American literary property get the African-American transformation: L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz produced the musical The Wiz, while Darlene Allen directed a Broadway output of Tennessee Williams’ Cat Around The Hot Container Roof by getting an exciting-black cast. (Leon happen to be installed on that project sooner or later.)