The Link Purple
Tuesday, August 25, 2020 at 7:00PM • /Film The Color Purple musical is getting a film version. It will be directed by Black is King helmer Blitz Bazawule. No word on casting yet but I think we can all agree that Cynthia Erivo should reprise her Tony-winning role!
• Broadway World meanwhile Erivo has launched her own production company
WHEW we have a lot to get through still. More after the jump including the business of movie theaters, Tenet's opening plans, Polanski's losing request, Netflix cancellations, Tiger King's spinoffs, and LGBTQ icons in comic books and on HBO...
• Variety Tenet is not going to most drive-ins, even though they're currently the safest way to go out to the movies. Strange. Dumb.
• Vulture Places in the world Tenet will be showing starting August 26th (see, some countries have handled the Covid crisis well. Alas not here in the US with our grifter clown president). And the US states where you can see Tenet starting September 3rd if you wanna risk your life
• Variety icymi Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton are both returning as Batman in The Flash (2022) which will introduce the multiverse to the DC Extended Universe
• Vulture remembers Gone Baby Gone's (2007) use of its own title
• Deadline talks to Cineworld boss about theaters reopening and how it's going
• /Film Netflix they've now cancelled two series, The Society and I Am Not Okay With This, that they'd previously renewed. I suspect we'll see a lot more of this given the lenght of this pandemic.
• Out HBO Max is debuting an LGBTQ miniseries called Equal in October about historical icons.
• Gay Comic Geek Major gay first? Hulkling and Wiccan are now married in Marvel Comics
• Cartoon Brew the Annies are the latest awards ceremony to be delayed. They'll now be held on April 16th, 2021
• MNPP celebrates the beauty of Avan Jogia. What's he been up to since his series Now Apocalypse was cancelled?
• Variety Roman Polanski has lost his legal bid to be reinstated to the Academy
• Variety Broadway on Demand will be streaming a tribute concert to Tony nominated star Nick Cordero (who died of COVID-19) on Labor Day weekend
• Deadline Kate McKinnon will star in Joe Exotic, a scripted miniseries based on the Tiger King doc series. This is not the version that will star Nicolas Cage so yes, there's two Tiger King series coming up.
Reader Comments (17)
Shit, Erivo can win all the EGOT for the same role!!!
Missed the most important news: Berlinale switches to gender neutral acting awards.
or maybe you saving it for a whole post were we can vent?
Peggy Sue
Terrible and bad decision in my opinion.
So they are just going to have one category for actors?
I'm not buying the cataclysmic danger of going to the movies, not with the safety measures currently in place. The Music Box Theater in Chicago has been open for months and there's been no issue there. Just wear a mask while you're seated if you're concerned.
I know she played Nettie on stage, but I would love to see Renée Elise Goldsberry as Shug.
What's wrong with just Best Actor and Best Actress.
the idea of winning an EGOT all for the same role is the most boring proposition in the world to me. the fun thing about an actor who wins awards in multiple media is that it displays their versatility with different roles across those fields. while i realize an argument can be made for the modulation of the role across the media, it's certainly not as fun, exciting, or as great an accomplishment as winning for all different roles in four different fields.
thefilmjunkie- YES to casting Goldsberry as Snug! In fact, they could have Erivo and Danielle Brookes reprise their roles from the revival as well and they'd have 3 possible Oscar nominations (Actress, Supporting Actress ×2).
If J Hud does well in Respect, she’ll be Shug.
Cynthia is winning that Oscar.
With The Color Purple (1985) losing 11 Oscars but being seen as a stone cold classic today, including Whoopi's Best Actress loss in a starmaking and extraordinary performance, Erivo is a shoe-in for the Oscar win. Not even nomination, win.
Jonathan - The virus doesn’t seem to care whether you buy it or not, judging by the rates at which students of every age are contracting it. I’m certainly not risking my life by going on campus and that provides considerably more space than a theater.
Celie has been a breakthrough role for the actress who plays her. She should continue to be so. Erivo had her moment and was rewarded handsomely. Oprah can find a new discovery.
Jonathan is uninformed about protection during this pandemic. When you wear a mask you are mostly protecting other people, not yourself. So even if you wear a mask in the theatre it’s not really gonna protect you if no one else in there is wearing a mask. I work in a café and even when people arent eating or drinking they’re still sitting there with their masks off. Same thing on the subway too. Even though it’s being “enforced”. I don’t trust that people will be safe.
I managed to get tickets for Labor Day weekend to a drive-in show of TENET that's about a 35-40 minute drive away from me. Worth it? We'll see. I'm not a Nolan fangirl, but I do think his movies are best seen on a big screen.
The director of "Black Is King" is going to direct this? Then Beyoncé is playing Shug Avery. And she'll somehow be billed above whoever plays Celie lol. (I'm only halfway joking there. Bey will win her Oscar one way or another, even if she has to tack on a dumb end credits song to this where she barely contributed a sentence to).
Shit. I loved "I am Not Okay with This" and was looking forward to its return.